The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1897, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1897. _—_— close to and facing nim, suddenly, with a | bhad it not been for those rat-like, cruel, quick movement of his right bhand, | small gray eves with their stealthy glances, snatched the false beard from his own | and had it notbeen for that stolid indiffer- face and in quick, dramatic tones de- | ence to sentiment that makes it easy to manded: “Now do you know who [ am?’ | believe him capable of murder as a com- No,” muttered “Butler,” in a very low | mercial enterprise or as a profession. tone, “and I don’t give & —." Across the right side of his lower lip - | They took tue prisoner aft and into the | captain’s cabin, a3 the men aispersed at the mate's order. “The bloody —— must have robbed somebody,” remarked one of the sailors | he moved away, wholly unconscious | 4 A that heand his companions had during | ink rings. He isnot a big man, but he is seventy long days atsea been closely asso- | compactiy and strongly built. His meas- ciated with a man supposed to bs one of | urements, taken later at the main police the most beartless and cold-blooded | station, show him to be only 5 feet 83 murder fiends of this century. | 1aches in height. He weighs at present Silvey, McHattie and Conroy went for- | but 154 pounds. : ward o gather together this “Lee Wel-| While seated there smoking he was ler's” effects. Upon his person they bad | asked where he originally came from, but found no weapons. To be sure he was on | he declined to furnisa any information. watch forward when the customs and | Then turning to one of his questioners he quatantine officers innocently came | remarked, “A man’s innocent till he's aboard. He was dressed in an old derk | proved guilty.” But when reminded that sack coat, the sleeves of which were rolled | an innocent man should have nothing to up several inches in‘order to be short |fear from the truth concerning such enough for him. On his head was a pecu- | matters as nationality particularly he liar littie black felt hat. His old, patched | made no reply. and faded blue overalls wershort enough | The patrol-wagon was tuxed to its full to reveal sockless ankles above bare feet | capacity when the prisoner and hi incased in old low shoes. numerous guards took seats. The officers On Butler's bunk was a coat and vest. | drove as rapidly as possibly to the City In a vest pocket were found six loose | Hall. Arrived there they conducted the there is a scar perhavs an inch loneg from his mouth downward. His nose is not flat on the bridge as described. His left thumb nail is misformed, a ridge cleaving it lengthwise. The ring finger of his leit hand is tattooed with two parallel Indi cartridges, 44 caliber. In the bunk also | prisoner into an inner room on the first found one of those short, stubby, uzly | fieor. The news of his capture had pre- looking revolvers very appropriately | ceded the wagon and curious personsstood called “English bulldog. | A large leather valise contained most of | the maa’s things. The others thev bun- | died into a latge blanket that had served | as a comforier. | Meanwhile the officers were wi man in the cabin aft. taking the prisoner’s amine 1t on the inside. about hoping to get & glimpse of the murderer. An examication of the prisoner’s effects was speedily begun and 8 careful invoice was kept of each article by Officer Fergu- son for this Government and by Detective Roche for the Colonial Government of Ausiralis. Sergeant Bunner acied as in- spector, calling out the items one by one as the things were taken from the large valise and then from the bundle. The prisoner, still silent, smoking, fur- tively watchful, was seated close to Fer- guson, and on the other side McHattie took up hisstation. Behind stood 2 police- man in uniform and one or two more were in the room, together with the other offi- cers. As the investigation proceeded the most | damaging testimony poss:ble was found | among the man’s effects. There were all the murdered Captain Lee Weller's mariner’s certificates and some things that were inscribed to Wel- ler'sdead wife. There were several mining expert’s certificates in the name of Frank Harwood and there were many pieces of | clothing markea F. H. or H., the supposi- | tion having been raised in Australia that Butler bad Yobbed Harwood, who is still alive, and had used the name and papers to make his mining investment schemes the more plausible. Detective Conroy privately identified the mining certificates as tbe very ones that the prisoner had shown him in Sy h their Detective Egan at began to ex- Turning out the leather sweatband he came across a little | paper package that ha side th 1 been lodged in- He unfoided the bit of was some sort of white might be strychnine. Later showed that it was. e was brought off and they | were ready to move. Curiously enough the prisoner had suggested that they had | better shackle his ankles, 100, while they were about it. The hint was encugh for the detectiv not shackle him, but they would tie a rove carefuily | ound him and guard against any slip by which he might Lope to fall overboard Al bappened before Swan- da had been towed in as s Black Poi There the little Hartley with her | extra pa: ger left the ship and steamed abead for Meiges wt bana. ere this h WAS CALM AND COMPOSED | Butler Showed No Emotion Talked Guardedly to Cap- tain Lees. and | On the way in to the wh: wiile the | detectives and other smil- | ney lust September. There were many ingly try to pat themselves and their | pieces of woman’s jewe!ry. Some of them, companions on the back, Conrby again | Conroy remarked, had been shown to him asked “Butler” if hedid not recall bim as | at the time the certificate of mining was CAPTAIN DONALD FRASER. ey LRI BUTLER'S TELL-TALE No. 2—Some of the jewels and trin No. 3—Butler’s blaukets covering e does the fellow mean?’ Sbe ran in still closer and signaled us, ‘Have you any passengers aboard?” I ran up, ‘No.’ “This time she was close under our quar- ter. Then she signaled, ‘Heave to; 1 have something important to communi- cate.” ““We complied. A boat was lowered and her second officer came aboard us. He joined me on the poop, carrying a bundle of papers, witn one opened. ‘Cap- tain — sends his compliments,’ he re- marked, ‘and thought you would be anx- ious to know about this—" and he whis- pered sbout the murders. I took him into the chartroom and there read the ac- count in the paper, which, however, Butler's. **‘Well,” said I ‘I fancy the authorities must be wrong, because I have no man of that name on my articles, and I have an exceptionally good crew, as it happens.’ kets. the remainder of his apparel. ', PROPERTY. The effects capiured with Butler aboard the Swanhilda, revealing property such as private papers, books, photo- erapbs dhd jewelry belonging to Captain Weller; also the hat and a package of strychnine hidden beneath the band: No. 1—The bulldog pistol with the initials “J. R.” and *J. K.” found in Butler’s possession. No. 4—The soft Fedora hat taken off Butler's head when he was arrested by Detective Egan, and in the band of which ten grains of strychnine was found. No. 5—The package of strychnine. No. 6—Butler’s valise, enclosing the Weller jewels, photographs and papers. first talking with “Harwood”” he told him that he had a brother-in-law and _a sister living at Aubrey at the Race Club Hotel, | Wagga road. *‘Harwood” had said then tbar as his mines were near there he would call on Conroy’s relatives on the | occasion of his next visit. It now appears | te did call and that he has the checkbook, | which in addition to having Conroy’s married sister's name on the inside cover bas also the name of his unmarricd sister. | “He told me after that,” said Conrov, | “that he had been down to Au and | had sold that mine of, his for £4000, and that I made a mistake in not going with him, as I should have had half. Isaw nim several times, but always knew him as Harwood.”’ | “Butler,” when asked during the exam- ination a question about lis antecedent acknowledzed that he had been here four | years ago, but said he would not talk be- fore the reporters. “I've got a very hard | charge to stand,” hesaid. I suppose I | can answer it; I'll try, anyway.” When called upon to certify by his signature to the correctness oi the items recorded by Roche the prisoner, his hand being liberated for the purpose, wrote without hesitancy the name Lee Weller and signed that name whenever it was | necessary on some half a dozen sheets of paper. - He was breakfasted in the police station kitchen, permitted 'to put on a flannel shirt and better overalls preparatory to being taken down to the Appraisers’ buildihz to be examined by tue United States Commissioner. Just before going, however, Chief of | Detectives Lees was closeted with the prisoner. What nappened is best ex- explained in Captain Lees’ own words. “When I first saw the man,” he said, “ms face struck me as being familiar, L told him I knew him or had seen him before. He said that he had never | been mixed up with the police, although he had been in this State before—about four years ago, when he shipped on an outgoing vessel. He bad remained here only a few months. | I find that the prisoner is a particularly | shrewd man,” added Captain Lees, “‘not that he attempts to be cunning and evasiv but that he is careful, and talks rationall, plausibly and with restristions—ne im- \ wanted here and would be arrested upon | relatives.” | rival of the vessel in tributed to me I could have made an attempt to escape, but Idid not. I knew three weeks and a half ago that I was my arrival on a charge of killing two people. I knew I tould clear myself, however, so I sibmitted to arrest.’ **“The news was conveyed toour ship by 4 passing vesseland it reached me through ! one of the officers.” “I promised Butler not {o tell the offi- cer’s nume,” said Captain Lees. “‘He told me that he knew Conroy, the Australian official here to arrest him, but did not.have any dealings with him in re- gard to mines. All the dealings he had | with him were when he called at Con- roy's house to court one of the latter's girl | [ *“‘Well,’ he said, ‘this fellow may have | shipped under anoth: r name.” “*‘That’s quite possible,’ I réplied, ‘but { I know nothing about it, and so faras 1 do know, I have no man of the kind among my crew.’ “Finally the officer gave me a bundie of papers sent from the newspaper offices immediately before sailing and which had never been opened. After he had gone I atarted in to reau them for the news, and the first thing I ran across was this mys- tery, and the first or second paper I read | mentioned Weller's name. Then I looked | up all the articles and went carefully through them. “I saw at once that Weller was the man right enough. However, 1 didn’t say a e THE CleTAlN;S STORY. | How He Learned the Outlaw Was | Among His Men. | To a CALL reporter yesterday afternoon Caprain Fraser told the story of ““Butler’s” | connection with the Swanhiida, from the | day on which he first signed articles in | the Sydney shipping oflice until the ar- San Francisco Bay vesterday and bis arrest by the officers of the law. Captan Fraser discussed the subject | with proverbial British sang froid, and if | outward appearances may be sald to fur- | msh any criterion the sensational denoue- | ment of this remarkable chapter in crimi- nal history left him absolutely unmoyed. | The latter fact is all the more noteworthy | when it is rememvered that Captain ] Fraser was aware of the identity of the | supposed Lee Weller ten days out from dney, after speaking the sieamship | Taupo and reading the particulars of the | Blue Moun:ain murders published in the Australian papers brought on board the | Swanhilda by one of the Taupo's officers_ | “Why, then,” was asked,” didn’t you | clap Butler in irons?” “I had absolutely no legal authority to do £0,” replied the captain, “‘and, more- over, I had no wish to deprive myself of | the services of a good man as he proved | himself to be throughout the passage. He was always well conducted and orderly. | 1 gave ‘Butler' no intimation that I knew | | which matin word to anybody just then, but the follow- | ing day I called the mate and showed him the new. out * ‘Read these over carefnl aid T, “Hedid so and then said, ‘This is the man sure enough.’ . ow,’ said I, ‘T don’t want this to go any further. Don't say anythingz to a living creature on board. Watch the man closely, and if ha misbehaves we will soon take care of him. But so long as he be- haves himself we will let him alone.’ “Nothing more happened until we reached this port and ‘Butler’ was ar- rested. “Throughout the voyage the man, though no seaman, showed nimself a good workman and knock-about man. He was also a good helmsman, and took his turn with the rest.” This was all Captain Fraser had to say, and 1t is a commonplace story enough, viewed in the light of recent speculations as to the possible fate of the Swanhilda, in murder and even the scut- tling of the unfortunate vessel were sug- gested as by no means improbable contin- gencies. aper articles which I had cut - HE WAS A PSALM-SINGER. The Suspect Distinguished Him- self on Board the Swanhllda as an Exhorter. The captain of the Swanhilda was not making long rep:rts yesterday. All that the Merchants’ Exchange reporter could | there was a man accused of cold-blooded | murders aboard were the captain and chief officer. According to Captain Fraser Weller was “one of the best sailors aboard the ship,” but according to the crew he was too much of a psaim-singer to suit them. Ho used to exhort the men (0 refrain from swear- ing and every Sunday there was a praver meeting in the fo'cas’le. men yesterday: “Weller was one of the best “hands cams across. When it came to farling a snii and the clew lines were striking us like the old-fashioned canes we got-on our hands at school many of the lads would | curse and swear -liks troopers. When everything had been made snug and the waich was crouching under the break of count. He would recount to each one of us the oaths' we had uttered under the spur oi the moment and exhort us to mend our way. ‘Boys,’ he would say, ‘thereis a hereafter and you all believe init. Now what excuse will you have to make on the judgment day when you come to making an accounting for all the blasphemy you have uttered to-night?’ Some of the ‘answers are not fit to put in print and Weller got many a josh. *'On Sunday he used to hoid a prayer- meeting, and he could talk, too, I can tell you. Why, he could talk about righu- eousness and kingdom-come like a preacher, and once in a while he made some of us fellows feel pretty bad. Only a few days before we reached port he said he was going to leave the ship, and he got down on his knees and prayed that we the burning,’ he called it. *Or: one or two oceasions the old man and another of the officers dropped in at the prayer-meetings, but they did not seem to take much stock in the proceed- ings, and -Weller noticed He said nothing, however, but only prayed- the harder that the captain and all on board might be brought to know rizhteousness. When the police came aboard and Weller was arrested, we were the most surprised Captain Fraser says that neither he nor any of his officers were present at any of the prayer-meetines, but he does say that he and his chief officer kept a close watch on Weller after he received the news from the Taupo. Afteralengthy consultationit waa decided to allow the supposed mur- derer his liberty and treat him just as usual. Captain Fraser says he was one of the most willing men in the forecastle. ‘When the Swanhilda arrived off the | Farallones Captamn Harry Marshall of the | tug Active was to the lee of the island and at once went out to her. Captain Fraser asked for a pilot and the tue signaled for the America. Captain Miller was soon aboard, and from 12 M. to 2:30 A. M. the master of the Swanhilda was keeping his | vessel standing on and off, trying to meke | up his mind as to taking a tow. Finaliy | be accepted Captain Marshail's offer, and direcily the lines were aboard the Active blew six whistles, and John Hyslop, the Merchanis’ Exchange efficient outlook, at. once flashed vack the answering signal, and five minutes later the news was at Meiggs whart. BUTLER - N COURT. He Tells Commissioner Heacock His Name Is Weller. When it became generally known that the notorious Australian criminal was ~on- ers’ building yesterday morning hundreas of visitors hastened to tae building to catch a glimpse of the man of whose bloody deeds they had read. During the day probably many of them women, saw the man | charged with so many crimes, for the Mar- | shai was aceommodating and allowed ail who came to see, 000 people, Said one of .the | at a prayer-meeting I ever | | the poop Weller would call the men to ac- | didn’t mention Weller’s name atall, but | might all be saved—tbrands piucked from | crew that ever came into San Francisco.’, | fined in the prisoners’ room of the Apprais- | When the extradition proceedings were called before Commissioner Heacock in the afternoon the Circuit Court room was | erowded toiits full capacity, : nd thousands | stood in line on Sansome street to view t.:e§ | prisoner as he was rushed into the van ¥ | be carried to the new City Hall prison. ) | At 2 o'clock yestordav afiernoon the Dprisoner appeared before Commissioner Heacock ‘in the United States Circai Court room for the purpose ot legal identi fication. Constable Conroy was the oniy witness called by Cormac & Donahoe, the legal advisers of her Britanmic Majes- ’ny’s Consul, J. W, Warburton, who will Tepresent the imverial Governmént.during the extradition proceedings, a continuance until next Monday morning at10:30 o' clock being atterward granted by the courtat the request ol Leonard, Stone & Bidwell, who appeared as counsel for the defend- ant. Prior to the commencem tification proceedin remained under gua win, Sergeant Bunn Officer Ferguson, of the iden- the prisoner Marshal Bald- T, Detective Egan and in the prisoners’ room adjoining the Marshal's office in the Appraisers’ building. - Butler occupied the interval posing for newspaper - artists, smoking cigars and stolidly enduring the scrutiny of the curious. Among the many visitors who paid their respects to the prisoner at this time of the day were seyeral members of the crew of the Swan- hilda, who, truth to tell, regarded their late comrade with a wonder that was almost admiring. “The outer corridors were soon crowded with the customary miscellaneous a ment of amanity, who are nabitua | witnesses of all 1ezal processes promis sensati So great was the crush t the officers experienced conside difficulty 1n conveying the prisoner the Marshal’s room to the Circuit Court opposite, and the latter was dilled the | moment the doors were opened. ! At5 minutes past 2 Commissioner Isea- | cock announted that he was ready for the prisoner to be brought into court. The enthusiasm of the spectators was intense, every eye being turned toward the door. | Suddenly the vrisoner stepped in, walk- ing briskly between the deputies 1n | charge. His lip did not quiverand his eve | did not flinch. ~ He paid no attention to | the intense gaze of the crowd and when he was asked his trae name. he answered in a clear toue, “'Lee Weiler.” Butler sat closely guarded by the cffi- cers, but_in proximity to his youthful counsel, Messrs, Stone & Bidwell., ‘Tne English Government was repre- | sented by T. £. K. Cormac and Denis Donohoe, and tie British Consul-General, J. W. Warburton, was present to apply for the extradition of the notorious crim- inal. When Commissioner Heacock asked the prisoner to stand and answer certain ques- tions he did so promytly, whereupon a | long list of aliases were read to him, ter- minating with the question, “What is your true nime?”’ |~ The prisoner caimly replied, “My name is Lee Weller.” |- Attorney Stone objected to further ques- | tions, stating that he wanted a continu- | aace; but the Commissioner explained | that the questions were oniy for the iden- tification of the prisoner. The application for the prisoner’s ex- | tradition, which is sworn 1o by Consul- | Gencral Warburton and presented by his | attorneys, refers to the prisoner as *“Frank Harwood, otherwise called S. Burgess, otherwise called Butler, otherwise called Sampson, otherwise called Lee Weller,’ but uniil the identitication proceedings are completed, this application will not be considered. Aitorney Stone addressed the Commis- sioner at the close of these formalities. He pointed out that the prisoner had only | Justarrived in port after a long sea v age, and in view of the surprise oc e - who he was and confided my knowledge |get out of him was “November 30 off Captain Do Cap n Fraser is a nativ+ third to friends in this city. H liked by his crew. 1d Fraser is master of the Swanhilda, the vessel for which three countries have been watching and waiting. i of Nova Scotia and the trip he is now making is his this port. He is a genial, warm-hearted man, and hss made numerous s a young man who enjoys bimself on shore, but when on board ship he is alert and attentive to every detail of his vessel, and he is well the man to whom he had, last September, given a map of the Aubrey gold region at the time Butler, then passing as Harwood, mining expert, tried to induce Conroy to join him in a mining exploration. Yes, he said he did remember giving some one that map, and he guessed Conroy was the man. A By chance the Hartley reached the wharf just as a dozen or more marines from the cuiter Perry arrived from their farewell all-night shore leave, spent down- town. Besides ihese men in sailor cos- tume there were perhaps a aozen other versons on the wharf at that early hour. It was then almost 7 o’clock. “Butler” was at once hustled upstairs in the Harbor Police station, there to await the police wagon that would carry the whole official party to tho main police station at the City Hall. While Marshal Baldwin was telephoning the good news uptown, Detective-John Roche, as chief Australian representative, Was preparing a terse inessage to be sent by cable to Inspector-General Fosberry, Sydney, New South Wales. Sergeant ner, for the first time in three weeks, exchanged Lis red flannel duty shirt for a white shirt, in which to go uptown with the party. “Butler” sat on the lounge, with Fergu- son bolding one of his hands. He looked furtively and from overhanging, shaggy brows, taking in his surroundings and the men sbout him. He was smoking a cigarette, which was almost exhausted, His bands were unnaturally pale and tooked thin. That may have been caused by his watch on deck in the cold air of the early morning. He gave the impres- sion of having lost weight. Conroy de- clared that be was fully “a stone lighter"” than when he last saw him in Sydney, four months ago. He puffed bard at the cigarette stump. It had gone out. Some one asked him if he would not like another cigarette. “I'll take a cigar if you have one,” [ coolly replied the prisoner; and the cigar | was forthcoming. *Yes,” he remarked, indifferently, between puffs, “‘this makes a very fair smoke."" He was collected, unflurried, matter-of- fact, almost indifferent from 1he very first, No b.ush mounted his cheek. - ~rdid it pale. As with the cigarette firs gl en—so with the cigar—he puffed re y on, a miserablg, uncomely, poorly ciad wretch -or- whom You might easily have felt pity | There were found but two gold sovereigns produced, and “‘Harwood” had explained that e bLad hed them made from time to | time from nuggets he had picked up in the mines. There were other things marked with other names and other ini- tials, all going to show that the prisoner had borrowed from several places. Detective Roche asseried privately that he could 1dentify the blue serge coat and vest found among Butler’s things as the one last worn by the murdered Preston. The eyidence was abundant, and the favorea spectators looked on in wonder- ment at the composure of the prisoner and marveled how he could have been so foolish as to preserve such documents. —not another cent of money. One of the greatest surprises of the ex- amination was that to Detective Conroy himself when Captain Lees, who even- tually arrived and assumed control, read in a checkbook the name “Mrs. Colin 0O’Connor.” “The dickens! That's my sister,” impulsively blurted out Conroy as he hurriéd rouna to examine the exhibit. He explained later that while he was poses upon me in regard to his statements | before he makes them. “For instance, he absolutely refused to speak on any subject while he was su rounded by newspaper men. He quietly told me that he did not believe he could do himself good by talking 10 the | public, but that he was willing to give me | all the information he possessed. | | Later on I had him alone. He began by teliing me he would not talk of his case. He said: ‘I deny that I am guilty of the charges agajnst me as read in the | warrant for my arrest. I will be fully | able to prove my iunocence when the time comes, but it would unnecessarily in voive the names of many people at this | time 10 make good my assertion, hence I prefer to remain silent. ‘1 was here as a sailor during several months about four years ago, and 1 shipped from this port.” Captain Lees’ promise was then ob- | tained that he would not divulge the name of the vessel on whicn Butler went away. The same promise was also given that Butler's real name would not be revealed. “Butler then told me,” continued Cap- tain Lees, “that none of the names by which he was called were his. * My name has not yet been published, and I don’t propose it shall be. I was born in London and my family reside there. Ido not care to have them mixed in this affair. * ‘It I had felt guilty of the crimes at- R L S ALl S . < 0 s | cer.” | said the captain,” and our crew was not | and I was told to come here direct. | came closerto us. to no oneon board except the first offi Captain Fraser then related the circum- i stances under which he first saw Butler in the shipping ofiice and shipped him as an able seaman. “Men were ver: scarce at the tims,” | made up. My first orders were to call at Honolulu and then come on to San Fran- cisco. Later, however, a change was made It was at this time that ‘Butler,’ or Lee Wel- ler, asked me if I was going to S8an Fran- cisco direct, Itold him yes. ‘Then,’ said he, ‘I'll go with you.” I looked at him and found bim a well-dressed man. His face was somewhat flushed as though he had been drinking. *“ ‘Are you an able seaman ?’ I asked. ‘Oh, yes,” he replied. ** *Have you any discharges? was my next question. ‘If so let me ses one of them.’ “He pulled a large envelope half-way out of his pocket in such a manneras to conceal it from the gaze of the others in the office and I then saw that the con- tentsof the envelope were either a mas- ter's or a mate’s certificate. Of course one or the other was good enough for me, so I told the shipping-master to sign nim on. After he had signed, he came to me where I was standing at the end of the counter and pulled out his certificate, when I found thatit was a master’s cer- tificate passed some ten or eleven years ago. My supposition naturally was that he had tallen in the world through drink aud so forth. “He came aboard almost at the last minute on the Monday morning we sailed and I said to the mate, ‘We have a man in the forecastle with a master's certifi- cate.” The mate asked me who he was and I said, ‘Welder, or something like that.” After we had been out a counle of days the mate said, ‘You must be mis- taken about that master’s certificate, be- cause the man is no sailor.” ‘There is no doubt about his having a master’s certificate,’ 1 replied, ‘because 1 it.’ his incident passed over and I re- marked to the mate that if Weller couldn’t do one thing he could do another. ‘Use him," said I, ‘the same as the other men.’ Nothing further of interest happened until the Taupo came along, bound for Raratonga. -When first sighted she was a/| long way off. When abeam of us I! thought ‘She will be able to read our sig- nals,’ s0 we hoisted the numbers, but they were not answered for over half an hour. At last she got so close that I could plainly | distinguish her signal haiyards, when I | ordered the second mate to report us all | well. “‘She answered that signal, but still | Said I, *What the devil north end of New Zealand was in com- | pany with the British ship Olivebank and American ship Sterling from Newcastle, N. S. W., for San Francisco.” From New Zealand all three vessels steered a direct course for the Fiji Islands and all three arrived off the coast of Cali- fornia about the same time. There are two square-riggers outside according to last reports, and one of them, so the tow- poat captains say, is either the Olivebank or Steriing. The latter has the choice in the betting. 1t wall be noticed that after leaving the north end of New Zealand the log of the Swanhilda 1s a sealed book. Captain Fraser met the Union Steamship Com- any’s Taupo in the vicinity of the Fiji slands and the steamer signaled tue ship to heave to for papers. Among the papers was a letter from the capiain of the steamer telling Captain Fraser that he had the murderer on board. From that date the log of-the Swanhiida, as iar as the public is concerned, is buried in ob- livion, The members of the crew are not as reti- cent, however. . They say that Weller was one of the best sailors on the ship. He was anxicus to reach San Franciseo in order to see his old mother, who lives in Toronto, before she died, and frequently remarked that “the old. man wou.d have made better time had he taken the nosth- ern course, (the same course taken by the Snow and Burgess, which arrived ahead of the fleet). As it was the vessel was delayed by light winds and calms, and Captain Fracer, after be received the letter from the Taupo, had 10 possess his soul in patience and trust in providence and his chief officer. Tue latter was st once taken into Captain Fraser's confidence, and after due deliberation they decided to let mat- ters move along as they were going. 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