The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-06-24
VOL. XXXIII
US. ON HUNT FOR
PIRATE SHIPS CREW
Worldwide Search Started For ~
Men Who Were On Mystery
Schooner.

Washington. June 2l.-A world
wide search for the missing crew of
the schooner Carroll A. Deering, of
Bath. Me-, which piled on the North
Carolina beach last January with all
sails set, but not living soul aboard
has been started by the State Depart
Hent through American Consuls.
The mystery is being investigated
by the Department Of Justice and the
Department of Commerce. as is also
the unexplained disappearance of the
American steel freighter Hewitt out
OF Sabine Pass, Texas, for Boston.
This craft disappeared at about the
same time-that the Deering came
ashore
The summary of the history of the
Deering case as sent to Consuls by
the State Department discloses that
when the Dcering passed Cape Look
out Lishtship, North Carolina, on Jan
uary 30. while bound from Rio de
Janeiro for Norfolk. a man other than
the master reported that the vessel
had lost both anchors and asked to be
reported to its owners.
Two days later the vessel was
found on the beach in what the State
Department describes as lin such
condition that there is every suspicion
of foul play having occurred" The
departments summary also says that
a short time after the Deering passed
the lightship, a steamer. the name of
which has not been ascertained, pass
ed the light vessel and was asked to
stop and take a message for forward
ink but no response was received to
the numerous attempts on the part
of the master Of the lightship to at
tract the vessels attention.
The departments summary then
says that on April II. the following
message was picked up in a bottle
near Capt Hatteras:
"Deering captured by oil burning
budt ooIH1tHihb ihc thdhtl' ldhlhB Oll
everything, handwriting crew. Crew
hiding all over ship. No chance to
make escape; finder please notify
headquarters Of Deering."
THE schooner carried a motor
lifeboat and a dory." The State De-
partment's summary continues: but
,,aithar Of tban, hoe haan nicl,ad an
and no wreckage from them has been
found. Most of the provisions, cloth
ing and supplies of the vessel had
been removed.
Government agents investigating
the Hewitt and Deering cases say
they are baffled and that thus far
they have not found a single clew
that might lead to solution of the
mysteries. Equally as battling, they
say, are the cases of the British
steamer Albyn and the Russian bark
Yute. which disappeared last fall off
the North Carolina coast.
The Albyn sailed from Norfolk last
October and never was heard from
again, while the Yute when off Cape =
Hattras sent a radio message asking
for aid, but when steamers reached
the position given in the message an
hour later no trace of the vessel was g
found and it is said she has never
been heard from since. Reports to |
the Government are that the weather l
was perfectly calm |
After the Hewitt disappeared and I
the Deering came ashore without a c
crew British inSuranc company I
suggested that the two vessels prob S
ably had collided and that the Deer 7
ing's crew went down with the Hew- a
lit. An investigation by coast guard D
however, convinced them Il
that the Deering was not damaged Il
to warrant a conclusion I
that she had been in a collision with II
any other craft. p
Investigators here say that they
10 not take seriously suggestions of l.
bolshevik raiders or deep sea pirates,
out they add that one guess is as good
as another. They are inclined to the
opinion that the two cases will go l.
Down in history with other unsolved d
mysteries of the sea. a.