The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1913-02-27
Disappeared
By ]. BERRY CRAPO

| Herman Gottlieb, charged with issuing
false indentures to the amount OF $780,
| Do, sailed today from Nice on the steamer
| Aloric, bound for New York. His destina-
ton is New York. Arrest him and hold
| him waiting extraditon papers. He stands
six feet two, has red hair, light complex
ion and weighs 200 pounds Supplement-
airy description by mail
The above cablegram was sent from
Berlin TO the police of New York and
received five days before the AIOric
was due in New York. y wireless was
also sent TO the captain of the ship
asking if any one answering the de-
scription was on board his vessel. The
first and second cabin passengers were
looked over and those in the Steerage
were lined up and examined critically.
No person answering the description
was found among either the first or
second class passengers. Some OF the
steerage passengers reported that a tail
man apparently weighing something
less than 200 pounds. but with black
hair and olive complexion. had been
among them, but had disappeared.
The wireless was received by Captain
Davidson of the AlOric when the steam
er was in midOcean. She had not
touched at any port She had passed
Gibraltar in broad daylight in the mid
die of the strait, and it would have
been impossible for any one to leave
her even if he had had the wherewith-
al to float himself without being seen.
GOttlieb did not reappear on the AlOr
&c and when she reached New York
he was not found aboard.
What had become of him?
1t is true that a man answering the
description given of GOttleb sailed
from Nice on the Alorc, and he was
the man the request from Berlin re-
ferred to. But his name was not Colt
lieb, nor was he a German citizen. He
was a Russian Pole named BlamiSky.
wanted by the car of Russia to work
in the Siberian mines. An officer of
the secret Russian police had traced
him to Berlin, and ii was he who had
done the forging, sending messages in
the name of the Berlin authorities.
The usual passage of ships between
Gibraltar and New York is to the
southwark of the island Madeira. On
the 10th of November, 80, a yacht
bearing the name Mill on her stern
left Funchal, the principal port of
that island, and steered eastward. She
had made some fifty knots when sew
eral sails appeared on the horizon, and
all turned their prows toward the
Mill. When they came near together
the captain of one of them signaled
that the Aloric was in latitude 80 de-
grees 20 minutes. longitude west of
Greenwich II degrees As minutes, and
would pass Madeira about fifty miles
south of Funchal at IL o'clock that
night. WhereupOn the captain of the
Mill signaled the little feet to steer
by different courses to point south
Of Funchal fifty miles and east of the
Funchal meridian thirty miles.
That same night the tall steerage
passenger on the Aloric, after all eX-
cept the ships watch had turned in.
stole along by route that would
render him unseen toward the after
deck. His size since he had turned in
had increased so that his girth meas
ured some twelve inches more than be
fore and proportionately on the other
parts of his body. He carried two tin
cans-one Theoretically sealed, the 9th
er opening by spring upon pressing
on a button. Both these cans were at
tached to his body by a small chain.
Blamisky reached the stern Of the
ship unobserved and found no one
there. The night was clear and the
sea was smooth, long swell only pass
ing from southeast to northwest The
fugitive looked up to the stars, mutter- |
ed a prayer and, mounting the taffrail
jumped over into the ocean.
He sank but a few feet, for under |
his clothes was an india rubber encase |
ment which he had blown full of air.
He took no action whatever, merely |
watching the lights Of the receding |
ship. Though his escape depended upon
her leaving him alone upon boundless
waters. he saw her recede with a kind
of awe. An hour later when the last
glimmer had gone out he pressed the
button on one of his tin boxes and |
took out an ordinary can opener, leav-
ing in the box some food and a bottle
of water With the instrument, hold
ing the other tin box above his head, he
cut hole in the tin, took out a rocket
and a patent cigar lighter. Holding
the rocket in his hand. he lighted the
fuse with the latter. The rocket went
high in the air.
He watched eagerly for a response.
but none appeared. In half an hour
he sent up another rocket, then another
till he had fred six rockets. After that
a breeze sprang up. the waves fresh
ened and his remaining rockets were
drenched with sea water. But the last
one he fired brought response. A
thin streak of light appeared perpen-
on the horizon just before day
broke.
Within twenty minutes a sail ap-
peared from out the gloom of receding
night, bearing nearly straight toward
the man in the water When he saw
that she would pass him far to the
south be took from his pocket a metal
ball, moved a slide on its surface and
threw it as far from him as he could
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