, 1921-06-22

anu the department. OF com
merce, as is also the unexplained dis
appearance OF the American steel
freighter Hewitt. out of Sabine Pass
Texas for Boston. This craft disap
peared at about the same time thai
the DeerinC came ashore.
The summary of the history Of tbs
Deering case. as sent to consu,s by
;he state department, discioses tina,
when h DeerinE passed the Cane
Lookout ~hghtship. n. c. on January
: while bound from Rio de Ja,siro
Tor Norfolk. a man other than Tho
master reported that the vessel mad
lost both anchors and asked 10 o. re,
ported TO its owneE.
Five days later the vessel was
found on h beach in what TIE state
department describes as lin such con.
diuon that there is every suspicion OF
foul play having occurred"
The departments SUMMARY also
says that a short time after Inc
Deerins passed the lightshin. A
steamer. the name OF which has rot
been ascertained. passed the light vcs.
sci Inc was asked to stop and. Ia Ike "A
message for forwarding but no re.
sponse was received to the 'numer.
u attempts on the art OF the mas.
ter Of the lghtship to attract the Yes.
sells attention"
The departments then
says that on April II the following
message was Kicked up in IA bottle
near Cape HAtteras.
Deering captured by oil burnine
boat something like chaser, taking OF
everything, handwriting crew. crcv
hiding all over the ship. No chance
10 make escape. Finder please notify
owners OF Dcering.'
The schooner carried a motor life
boat and a dory. the state depart,
n summary continues. blu,
neither OF them has been picked uu
and no wreckage from them has beer
found. Most OF the provisions. cloth.
Ing and supplies OF the vessel had
been removed.
Government agents nvestigatin.
the Hewitt and Deering cases say they
arc fbaff1ed I'M that thus far they
have not found a single clue that
might lead to a solution of the mys
~teries. Equally as bathing. they say.
are the cases OF the British steamer
Albyn and the Russian bark Yute
which disappeared last fall Oft tn.
North Carolina coast. The Albyr
sailed from Norfolk last October ant
never was heard OF c.sain. The Yutc
when off Cape Hatteras. tent a radio
message asking for aid, but wi.er
steamers reached the position giver
in the message an hour later no trace.
OF the vessel were found. and 1t I,
said she has never been heard Of
since. Reports to the government
are that the weather was perfectly
calm. va
investigators mere say hat they dc
not take seriously suggestions of Boil
shevik raiders or deep sea pirates
but tina n guess Is as good as an
other.
They are inclined to the opinion thai
the two cases will go down in histor,
with other unsolved mysteries of the
sea. the greatest OF which on record
they declare. is that of the American
bark. Marie Celeste. which was found
off the Azores three months after she
left Europe in 1872. with all sails set
undamaged. in calm weather, but with
the crew missing.
A boarding party from the ship
which sighted the bark found the
table set for dinner with hot coffee in
the pot and everything aboard the
ship in the same condition IL would
have been had the crew left only q
few minutes before. On n sewing ma
chine was a waist which the captains
wife had been making. while toys USED
by the captains son were on the floor
In the ~forecastle vas a table with
playing cards distributed around a.
though members OF the crew had leis
urely left a game OF cards.
Besides the captain, his wife and
son. there were 10 men in the ships
crew. The vessel was taken to pori
and again put in service. but about
six years later she disappeared com
pletely with her crew and no word has
ever come from her.
PORTLAND RELIEVES
STORY. OF LOSS.
PORTLAND. Me, June 21.-Ths
theory hat pirates are afioat in the
north Atlantic. has found credeHes
here. Belief in this explanation OF
the fate OF recently missing ships has
grown with the establishment OF the
fact that the message in a bottle
picked up two months north Of
Cape Hatteras. p%urporting to explain
the disappearance OF the crew Of the
five-masted Bath schooner Carol A,
DeerinG. a mystery ship, off Diamond
Shoals, was written by Henry Bates Of
.Islesboro. Me-. a member of the crew
Question a its genuineness was set
tied by handwriting experts who com
pared il with letters written by Bates.
The unsigned note stated. that the
shcooner had been captured by an oil
burning craft. something like a sub
chaser. the crew handcuffed and that