, 1915-02-18

"How long after you felt h board
rise7'
.Perhaps a minute. possibly two"
"so on"
"Just after the ships bell struck six
3 O'Clock. The main cabin was dark
There was a light In the chart room,
from the pinnacle light. felt my way
to Mr.. Wallis room. l heard him breath
ing. His door was open. | struck a
match and looked at MIN. He had
stopped breathing"
"What was the state of his bunkr"
Observation-Disclosures. BE was al
most hacked to pieces"
go on"
81 ran back and got my revolver.
thought there had been a mutiny"-
"Confine yourself to what you saw
and did. The court is not interested
in what you thought"
81 am only trying to explain what
did. l ran back to the storeroom and
got my revolver and ran pack through
the chart room to the after companion,
which had a hood. l thought hat If
any one was lying in ambush the hood
would protect me until / could get to
| IHe ueth. 1 Iulu Tic htlilSiidh Whut
had happened, and ran forward. Mr.
Singleton was on the f~orecastle head.
We went below together and found the
captain lying at the foot of the for
ward companion. also dead"
"At this time had you called the
owner of the shipT'
"No. called him then. But I could
not rouse him.
explain what you mean by that"
"He had been drinking"
There followed a furious wrangle
over this point, but the prosecuting
attorney succeeded In having question
and answer stand.
what did you do nextT'
THE mate had called the crew. |
Weakened Mrs. Turner. Miss Lee and
Mrs. Johns and then went to h chart
room to call the women there. The
door was open an inch or so. | re-
ceived no answer to my knock and
pulled it open. Karen Hansen, the
maid. was dead on the floor, and the
stewardess was in her bunk in a state
of collapse"
State where you found the ak with
which the crimes were committed"
at was found in the stewardess'
bunk"
"Where is the ak nowT"
at was stolen from the captains
cabin, where 1t was locked for safe
keeping. and presumably thrown over
board. At least we did not find it"
81 see you are consulting a book to
refresh your memory What is this
book?"
.The ships log"
"How does it happen to be in your
possession"
1.-THE crew appointed me captain. As
such ! kept the log book. 1t contains
q full account of the discovery of the
bodies. witnessed by all the men"
"Is it in your writingT"
Eyes. 1t is in my writing"
"You read it to the men and they
signed m"
"No; they read it themselves be-
fore they signed it"
After a wrangle as to my having u
thority to make a record in the log
book, the prosecuting attorney succeed.
ed in having the book admitted as evil
dence and read to the jury the entry
of Aug. 10.
Having thus proved the crimes l was
excused, to be recalled later. The de
Tense reserving its cross examination,
the doctor from the quarantine station
was called ext and testified to the
manner of death. His testimony was
revolving and bears In no way on the
story save in one particulars curious
uniformity in the mutilation of the
bodies Of Vail and Captain Richardson,
a sinister similarity that was infinitely
shocking. In each case the forehead,
the w arms and the abdomen had
received a frightful blow. In the case
Of the Danish girl there was only one
wound-the injury on the head.