New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-29
MYSTERY OF THE MAINE
,test "ReaI EXPLANATION Saws
American Caused Explosion.
A WILD AND W00LLY TALE
CAPTAIN Boynton Did 1t, Though
Ne Was Then in Venezuela.
Says a Detective.

-. srrroaching offcial solution ~ ~.
.,.rv 81 the blowing I'd OF the Main.
.,.b &c expected 70 follow as a result ~
-,,sins Of the wreck OF the battleshin
80 the coming safe and sane Fourth.
,6se6 fresh impetus 70 the fov OF tales
-. car thirteen wears since the catastro-
have been advanced 70 explain how
-, s1nlosion really happened. The --latest
.-.sl explanation. which comes hurry
= ,,-vard for hearing before the Of
.s.r findings shall finally put quietus on
80 particular line Of romance. saws ,ne
...-ss ~ powder which blew the Maine
= q twisted wreck was SET off by ,hs
80 ~ an American as the price Of his
..r,nA from a death sentence under which
=. rss beine held by the Spaniards
,,,or5ing 70 this story the American
- thus sacrificed the lives Of more than
go hundred Of his fellow countrynen in
~ n save HIS own life was CAPTAIN
-sorre z Bovnton. who died in New York
.,rr months ago. after an adventurous
..-.s- on land and ses. chiefly in South and
C.-,~sl America with the particular type
:. evolution produced in those parts. Re
400 among his admirers the title Of
4
...s IN getting mixed up in these affairs.
-,srv n which We're said % have t-en
s.-red ID rs the warlke captain himself
TIE Maine was not blown UP by a sci
r,ns this latest story asserts. since the
.csrisrds feared the mines supplied by
.ss,r government would not 10 icet the
.,-, II ion they wanted The idea was that
,he explosion should make II appear that
/, was result Of the going or Of the
.si,s ovr magazines. With this end in
~ en- save the tale a boiler was filed
,i-h powder and lashsd underneath a
vgb,er IN sings and lowed in the dead OF
,sst out 20 me ship. being dropped into
80 mud about seyenty-fve feet in front Of
~, AZ she swung with her head northeast
,ortinr into the trade wind by cutting the
sires Ar accommodating shift in the
vtus later swung tire ship around 50 that
sse aoated Immediately over the sunken
boiler -amme5 full Of powder.
The War Maker" Appears.
We we're attached to IN internal ma
,s.e inside The boiler continues the tale.
,a--ied to government wharf and al
.s,re5 there 20 an electric oetonator.- The
se---aes n war seemed 70 % busy just
sbou. hen arranging events 70 SUIT the
-os- particular story teller for II vas
about this tine that Captain Boynton-"the
va Maker hirself-came into tho pos
s,sy,on NJ the sDanisrds. charged with fiji
trs-er.r- ir cid - the insurrectos. They
he'd --e nine the wires. the electricity
s-d che button. and n looking for the
Tar % press the button they decided II
.he tale te true that the Americana would
5, rst the one % blow ne boat Of the
arsrcaros government into particularly
.-e s7't'nersers
Considering 1ow tond ne was Of his
seek CAPTAIN Boynton agreed with them
and pressed ne tateful button with rather
famous results The story also says that
10 vas made - swear never 70 20 back
70 tre United states and say that he was
re man -ta- cid - or Why ne did II.
iris story vas said 70 have been brought
= ne attention Of the government Secret
ser~,cs and t3- a lonr time Boynton was
rider Investigation by its agents. He IS
al % have been cleared Of the imputauon
Z, Saving been connected with the plot by
re discover that AZ the time The Maine
vas blown up ,e was busy in Venezuela
= the Employ ~ President Crespo-proc o.
a. making some - the Var ,Or which
= Tss famous
Iotr -Ieehar. whose international de-