Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-23
HIS SHELL SLEW
..-- HIS SWEETHEART
N.eoat Captain Could Not Forget ano
In the End He Leaped lnse ths
Waves With a Curse Upon His


Waves With a Curse Upon HIS
Lips for the Kaiser.
Hans Won TueGinssr Was all art stu
dent =; stockholm before the war, he
Yax Engaged ~ marry Minna Larsen.
daughter Ut ! Norwegian schooner
captain. Then came the WAX and
Hans returned to Germany and Was
sssiSasd IL command = submarine.
Aunna pined away and her father,
thinking to brace her up. took her
with him When he sailed away on the
sss. During one or those voyages the
schooner was attacked BY subna-
line and d splinter OF wood. shattered
BY shell, killed the girl. The com
Mander Of the submarine came aboard
took one look al the slain girl, and be
came almost beside himself with grief.
II was Won Tuebinger.
Some time afterward Won Tuebing-
srs Uboat sank another vessel. The
mate aboard was Minna's brother The
young man was cIazed with excite
ment and anger when he discovered
tie identity OF the destroyer OF his
vessel and leaped al him, catching
him BY the throat. one OF Hans men,
however, hit the young assallant over
the head with the butt OF a revolver,
knocking him into the sea. Although
Hans jumped after aud di,ed tor hiln
repeatedly, the young man never came
10 the surface again.
Once again after that man who
had known the Uboat captain al
Stockholm during the days OF court
ship before the war was torpedoed by
HIM. THIS man said that Hans in
yited him to his cabin aboard the t.
boat and there he saw on the wall Il
picture of Minna draped IN crepe aud
with some sentimental poetry under
meath. That was the last heard OF
Hans Won Tnebinger vi IL the steam
Ell lal! land, 4 NorW esian steamship,
Sea Win Ga. loss Of ten If hei crew.
How Won Tueblnger, crazed b. &rll.
over the deaths he had caused, Kill
ed himself and died with a curse on
his lips for the Kaiser is told by John
Pirsno, a former member of the Fah
lands crew who recently arrived at
an American port. He told his story
~ follows:
The Falk land was carrying a cargo
from Philadelphia, and everything was
going along smoothly until We We're III
tae North Sea, about $50 miles Off the
northeast coast OF England, when a
shot tore away our funnel. Another
smashed into the engine room, killing
half dozen men.
The shells were coming so fast that
We didn't wait any longer, but piled
into the life boats and got away a.
quickly as We could. We were not It
bit zoo soon. for The vessel sank Il
few minutes after we had cur loose
from her All told ten men persisted
with her.
WIN my 0hHiNiy W S'h o's'f
still had curiosity enough left to pick
up aud put into my pocket couple OF
pieces Vi one Of the shells which had
smashed the fuAnel AftelwaId | DIS
covered that the she'll was cement
But that discovery was made weeks
stterward in London by friend OF
mine who is chemist. Until then
thought il was some sort OF brittle
metal.
The captain OF the U,boat made US
come alongside after our vessel was
gone He struck me right away as be-
ing sort Of loony. | never saw man
acting more queerly. He looked as ii
lie .feit sorry for us and then be-
came excited and angry and ordered
,us to get out OF his sight. We were
la mortal dread of the man and didn't
know just what to do. We sure were
.Lstwssn the devil and the deep sea.
Fer We made w our minds that no
matter whether we stayed or rowed
away he would find some cause of
Quarrel and have Us shot.
He asked our captain whether he
nsd seen Minna.' We thought he
meant some vessel named Minna; but
the way he pronounced the name and
the awfully sad expression that came
into his eyes soon convinced me that
he must have meant woman of that
name with whom he was crazy in love.
1 couldn't help laughing, although it
was no laughing matter for him and
none OF us, either, when you consider
the pickle We were in.
Il guess our captain must have
thought that so long rs we were bound
TO offend the Uboat commander no
matter what we did the best thing
would be to get as far from him rs
possible, and 80 we rowed away. We
had gone about half mile when we
saw him waving his arms about his
head and running up and down on the
deck.
1--WE better go back said the sec
.ond mate to the captain. i think he's
kind o put out because we rtwed away
without asking him.
Wa went back Z good deal faster