Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-03-08
TAUNT SENDS
ENGINEER TO
: PERILOUS SEA
ScOrn of Woman Causes Paul
Carter, American, to Go
With Death Ship
CONFESSION IN COURT

ATLANTA, Ga, March S-Experience
in the submarine zone in a death ship"
on which he had signed because the
lone woman had tainted him with be-
ing yellow" were narrated by Paul B.
Carter, sentenced to FIVE years in the
federal penitentiary for mailing a bomb
to an army captain whom he believed
had supplanted him in the affection of
the zone woman"
The woman involved is Miss Claire Nc
.Afillen, who was married to Carter and
assumed her maiden name when she was
granted a divorce.
The taunt of yellow was flung at
Carter by the lone woman" when they
were living in Philadelphia, where Car
ter was building locomotives for the
Baldwin works.
The locomotive builder was also d
marine engineer and held chief engi
neer's license to take charge of any
ship.
His experiences on the seas in ship
that was a death trap or n suicide
vhip," as he called 1t, were detailed in
the written life confession prepared by
Carter while awaiting his appearance in
fhe federal court.
His confession reads:
I'm the latter part OF August the one
woman said to me: Boy, don't you
think you would be doing more for your
country If you took out a ship? You
J5now how many are tied up on account
# the shortage of engineers
FOREMAN SAYS
STAY WHERE YOU ARE"
1--WE discussed the matter for several
days and finally put it up to the gen
eral foreman and his reply was. Stay
whore you are
II told the blessed girl this, but she
did not seem satisfied, finally telling me:
Lover boy. know You are not afraid
OF any one man, or two or three. know
you are one IN 10000 with a gun, but I'm
afraid theN Hun and the U-boat have
made you show yellow
Naturally / resented such all accusa
tion and the result was quite GOODNESS.
A repetition two or three times got me
thinking whether or not I was yellow
There was a way to find out, though,
and took it. I called up Bert Greenison.
representative of the Ocean Association of
Marine Engineers, OF which organization
I was a member, and asked him If there
was a ship needing an engineer, that was
RI bout ready to sail.
He said: Only the Bramel Point.
"hell ship" and I know you don't want
her ] asked him why and was told,
She has never made a trip without
world of trouble and has been towed into
port twice with her engine down and the
engine room crew ready for the hospital
from overwork. She is slow, only ten
knots, has no armament, and is in bad
shape for electricity, for only one gen
orator works. You don't want her, for
that is suicide
II said: She is mine
MARITIME PERILs
RECITED BY LOG.
Carriers statement then set forth the
log Of the Bramel Point during its jour
ney TO Port Arthur. a recital that Is
replete with stirring incident and mari
time perils. These include mechanical
troubles with the ships engine that
meant long hours of arduous labor. at
tacks upon the vessel by enemy war
craft and disputes among the crew that
Lad TO be adjusted by very primitive
methods
During the voyage to Port Arthur
>nArter was buOyed up by the expecta-
h of receiving there numerous letters
from the zone woman" but his NAH
bag, when he reached port, came back
empty.
.Carten then told of an uneventful
trip back, with nothing more to con-
fena with than a gale in the Florida
straits.
ION arrival at Philadelphia I caught
? taxi and beat it out to the house,
feeling sure to find some one on arrival
Snd waiting. We were six days over
Que, and had not been reported.
II found the house dark and a note
IN the table saying, I've gone to the
chow, win be back not later than 1
~'clock, as III have dinner before
come home"
This was the end Of the partners
- tale, sandwiched in between loving cpl
sodes in the life with the one woman,
who renowned him after a quarrel and
left for her home in Gainesville. She
then sued for a divorce and was ready
10 appear against Carter had he con
tested the bomb plot case IN the fed
eral court.