The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-08
TWO Of SHIPS
CREW DETAINED
IN COUNTY JAIL
Both Are for the Present
Charged With the Death
of a Comrade.
CORONER ORDERS
THEM LOCKED UP
Investigation Of Death Of
Sailor Brings Out Some
Details of Case.

Detained in the county Jail and for
mally held for murder Fred Clarke,
an Englishman, and John Griffith, col
ordered, a foreigner, are technically
charged with the murder of Andrew
Wisenar, a seaman from the British
bark Chile, now in berth at the c.,
F. & A. wharf. These two men were
ordered held until the jury could get
together to take further testimony
on Saturday next, when the British
consul will be on hand, TO look after
the interests of the British subjects.
Wisenar is the man who, found
near the track of the Bayshore line
early yesterday morning, died a short
time after having been taken to the
hospital. The jury was empaneled
and testimony taken from a. number
of witnesses. This had the effect
of securing the release of John Re-
nit, boatswain of the ship, and an
other sailor. These two had been
taken into custody by the police de-
partment shortly after the man had
been found near the corner Of Bar
celona and Main streets. They were
both released at 5 o'clock yesterday
from the city Jail.
The body of Wisenar, which was
held at the Pou undertaking shop,
will be buried this afternoon at )
o'clock. The coroner's jury viewed
the remains upon being empanelled
yesterday, and the coroner then de-
cided that it would be all right to
release the remains for interment.
The jury is composed of the follow
ing: E. B. Gonzalez, Richard MUIR
ray, R. ]. Fillingim, w. /. Vermillion,
John A. Johnson and w. E. Beck.
They heard from several witnesses
Yesterday during the afternoon, and
the two men aforementioned were
ordered locked up.
Clarke, the white man, was said
to have been with the murdered man
when he was stabbed, and Griffith,
the black foreigner, yesterday was
said to have shown up at the British
consulate and to have requested that
one pound note be changed into
coin of the United States. The cap
tain of the ship, upon hearing this
statement, said there was no way for
the black man to have gotten the
sovereign unless he had obtained it
from sailor, and it then developed
that Griffith had not been paid off,
and when on shore during Tuesday
night, was known to have had no
money. One one pound note was
possessed by Wisenar, the murdered
man, it was charged, and all things
put otgether caused the negro to
be locked up and the formal charge
of murder placed against him.
MADE A STATEMENT.
Before being moved from the spot
where he had been found, Wisenar,
it was sworn at the inquiry yester-
day, made the statement to a number
of passengers and to the motorman
and conductor of the car, that he had
been poisoned, and that he would be
all right shortly and would have it
out with the ones who were respon-
sible for his condition. He did not
mention any name, the witnesses tes-
titled, but indicated that one of the
crew had hurt him.
BEEN STABBED TWICE.
The dead man had been stabbed
twice in the back and several times
in the side, according to members Of
the coroner's jury. One leg had been
broken, and one side Of the head had
been lacerated, as If the body had
been dragged for sof1e considerable
distance. One jagged wound in the
side, which the coroner, Judge VIM.
L. Johnson himself probed, was near
ly one and one-half inches deep. This
was thought to have been made with
blunt instrument, and it was
thought this was where a part, pos
sibly a bolthead, of the car, had
struck him. Two of the knife wounds
in the back, it was thought, would
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