Evening journal., 1913-11-18


ready familiar with its merits. Results
"They told me so, but didn't see
it," replied Snobohm. He had heard |
the men complain two or three times
they didn't have enough TO eat. Some /
of the men complained to him that
they got but two crackers in the /
later in the day.
Snobohm said he could navigate. /
could take latitude and longitude J
etc, but he got his orders to follow /
courses from the captain. He fol- /
lowed the courses left for him. and
the captain was in his bunk He
said. in response 10 a question that
he asked the men to take the lashes
on him and put handouts on him. He
denied he requested that he be tied
up and placed in his cabin. He said
he had been on very many voyages /
in the last seventeen years.
Were you ever on a voyage where !
the men were treated as badly as on
this" asked Mr.. Ball.
NO. replied Snobohm.
District Attorney Nields took up
the questioning again, and In (
response to his question Snobohm
said he didn't join the mutiny be-
cause he thought IL a wrong and
foolish thing and he told the crew
so. he said
Snobohm said he saw no evidence OF d
the captain being drunk, and didn't
see him strike anybody during the voy
age.
Cook on the Stand.
Otto Tongler, the ships cook, who has
been out on $500 bail, was the next wit
ness called. Tongler said he was born
in Norway. but raised in Germany, and
he told OF his experience OF 23 years and
of signing and cooking for the crew of
2 the Manga Reva.
S rs it denied that the men he named
are part OF the crew." Commissioner
!. Mahaffy asked Of Mr.. Ball.
"Tey were on the vessel at that
time,n enigmatically answered Mr.. Ball.
( Il don't want YOU TO make any ad-
missions" Mr.. alahafY remarked with
( smile.
4 Tongler said the captain became in
and told him; Run the ship as well as
J you can. Give them plenty to eat Don't
waste anything. Take care of the pO-
tatoes." He said two tons Of potatoes
were on board Tongler said he did
not hear any complaints about the food
until after the mutniy. Potatoes, he
said arc a staple food on ship. He tried
to vary the food at meals, he said One
day the men complained they didn
have enough soup, and after that they
always got enough soup, Tongler said.
They got breakfast. dinner and sup /
per daily and coffee at o'clock in /
the morning. Tongler said he varied I
the meals so as to serve for break 1
fast, stew two mornings a week. por- /
ridge two mornings a week, pork I
and beans on Saturdays and "salt /
horse" and potatoes on Sundays and
Wednesdays.
Speaking of the complaints, Of scar
city Of water. Tongler said the men
used to dip with a quart measure, but
he put a glass at the pals for them
to use.
Tongler said when he Joined the
Z ship he wasn't sober and believed
the first mate had liquor on him, too
going away from Philadelphia. Il got
E an awful setting of from the captain
for being in liquor" said Tongler.
= did you ever see the captain in
e any way affected by liquor" aked
5 Mr.. Nields.
!. mo, sir, but have a very grave
{ doubt about when he touched the
) bank sir. when be fell down the
steps. was told by some of the
e crew he was in LIQUOR, but | think
he was sick and exhausted"
I When the mutiny. started, on October
1 25. Tongler said, he was knocked in the
head. but couldn't say wha knocked him
down He said be might have had
rolling pin OF knife in his hand and was
! running forward, He showed a cut he
! received on the head. He said he saw
= Mate Tripp on the deck, bound. Hersfell
told him to 90 about his work and It
1would be all right, he said, and the
crew treated him kindly. He said he saw
e the captain manacled in his cabin fo-
? two DAYS Tongler said he told the crew
I he wouldn't 90 against the ships orders
e lanl for them TO lash him up. He told
= the captain he was with him." he said.
@ He was kept in his cabin for two days,
< M said. and several members Of the crew
t did the cooking
Tongler said Reid, Samuels and Cum
mings seemed to be in command of the
. mutinous crew.
The officers we're guarded at all
times by men With the captains pistol
? ilOHEitl odiu.
j Mr.. Ball. beginning his cross-ex-
> animation, asked Tongler:
"You were drunk when you went
on ship?"
! "No," the cook replied After much
! Questioning, he explained that he was
! on shin for eight days before he
; signed articles, and drank his liquor
! on ship when il sailed from Phila-
} ldelphia. He didn't mean, in his
, Testimony earlier. that he was drunk
when he Joined the ship. he said.
/ Commissioner Mahaffy at this juno
ture said he had failed to warn
Tongler. who is a defendant, that
, he could not be bound to testify or
/ give evidence against himself
Z iTongler said he wanted to testify and
I sneak the truth. He said Mate Tripp
/ also was "in liquor" the night the ship
I sailed from Philadelphia, on Octo-
3 lber 9.
At this juncture a recess was taken
} lat LIS to 2.30. During the recess
1.-The asilnrs EArA sivan lunch