Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-02-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THROUGH STORM AND ICE. Saturday morning by Detective-Inspector Free- I Steamer. lately arrived in America bring many borough, of the London and North-Western Railway !thrilling tales of storm and shipwreck. The British Company'. station at Crewe. On the Monday fel- i steamer Thanemore, which has reached Boston, lowing the day of the murder, insPefitef Preohoroogh, brought seven shipwrecked seamen, just half the with the view of assistieg the police to unravel the number who sailed from New York on January 6 on mystery attaching to the crime, went down to the board the Norwegian ship Josephine for Danzig. The Hough to make a general search tor a clue. He others were lost. The captain of the 'fbanernore say. began by going into a field on the right hand eide that on the evening of the 26th ult. he sighted a flesh of the lane in which the murder was committed, light from • distressed vessel, ran towards it, and and embedded deeply in the hedge bank, about 20 found the Josephine rolling about, waterlogged, yards from the spot where the deceased was found, swept clean of boats, water-casks, and other movables. he discovered the handle, which was subsequently captain Bugge prayed that he and his men might be produced in court, and identified by the sister and taken off, and accordingly • crew of volunteers from little brother of the prisoners as being that which ' the Thauemore, headed by the second officer, peewee attached to the axe uaed to chop wood at the • formed the hazardous feat, with the aid of deceased's shop in Crewe. Later, Mr. Freeborough, oil alongside. It was eight o'clock when accompanied by Inspector Oldham, of Crewe, went to the spot again, feeling convinced that the axe-head Captain Bugge and biz six companions were safe on the eteamer'e deck. The Josephine's was somewhere about. After a few minutes' digging cargo consisted of 5400 barrels of petroleum, and she with his walking-stick into the soft earth cf the met heavy weather almost immediately after leaving hedge-bank his stick came in contact with • hard New York. On the 18th of January Oscar Johansubstance, and, quickly removing the earth which arisen, seaman, fen from the jibboom and was lost, covered it, he diecovered the axe-head. It is of a and oath. 24th, during the fearful hurricane, the sea commonly-known type. It has • sharp, curved edge came on board and swept five men over the side, at on one side, and is hammerahaped on the other. It the same time instantly killing Johann Paterson, the Wal covered with bloodstains at both ends, and cling- man at the wheel. All the boats were swept from leg to it and the broken handle were tufts of dark the davits, and the vessel began to leak. Though and grey hairs clotted with blood. The axehead was from that time until the Thanemore took them off all immediately taken to Dr. Matthews, of Nantwich. , hands were kept at the pumps, the forecastle was the for the purpose of an analysis of the bloodstains. The only hal-RAU, part of the ship. When she was police attach great importance to the discovery, as, abandoned the Josephine had four feet of water in the apart from the coulee/done of the prisoners, the , hole, the rudder post was gone, and most of the sails evidence they have hitherto been in possession of was ' blown away. The lost seamen, besides those named, somewhat meagre. are Hoakon Hoisted (first officer), Ludwig Hansen, Wilhelm Eklund, Wilfred Eklund, and Alfred Sten. mark.