The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1903, Page 2

ae. ~ ewe rep ere me FRENCH BARK SEIZED AND SHANGHAIED BOY RESCUED Revenue Cutter Puts Men Aboard Marechal de Gontant to Hold Her Pending Investigation of the Ship- ping of Hugh Thompson Collier \ bark Marechal de Gonte nied sil whe Ae are Of board a boy who had ne Rariy to-dey the cute ! r a andy Hook, un abls to en an he t ’ ns hoarded and the bey found. He wan br t New apt. Dennterre, the con Manor of the park, and ‘ vA arae of men from the cut ter, WhO were ordered to hold her at nohorad nding an inveatign tion of the com; THE BOY TELLS Young Thompron WIS STORY, Custom-House, which statement wa course of his story “My name je Hugh Thom; and I Th mpron years olf, and live with my parents at No. 240 Front street My father 18 mate on a | Pendleton coaster, and comes home once a month “When he came home the other day he told me that T ought to go nie a job on a coaster if T wished to go to| took me over to South This man sald he me, and te work, and that he soula get sea, I sald I was williug, and Street, Manhattan, where we met a man named Bates yuld get me a job on a coaster at $14 a month, That suited Rates gave my father $8 BOY WAS GIVEN FOUR GLASSES OF BEER, “We went into a saloon, and I had cbout four glasses of beer. not drunk, for | went home and told my mother | was going to sea. fixed up a bundle of clothing and 1 left home. “I met Bates Tuesday afternoon, and he took me and three men who also had shipped, before the F 1 did not understand much that was being, said, Wut I heard the Consul say something about 70 francs, And as I knew that was about $14, 1 thought they were talking about my wages. After we left this office we were taken to Staten Island, and [ was Drought on board the French ship with the three men. “When I saw the boat I knew at once it was not a coaster, and when I heard a little later that it was bound for Asia I realized I had been deceived. I protested, but that was all the good {t did me. I was so in- dignant that I inade a lot of noise and I was locked up 1 couldn't eat and I couldn't sleep; but I determined to get away if it were possible. ONE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FAILED. “Yesterday morning when the water boat Scandinavia camé alongside I Watched ny chance and sprang over the side of the Frenchman and hid in a coal unker on board the waterboat. | thought sure I would make my escape, but the mate of the Frenchman climbed on board the waterboat and found me, He dragged mc back to his ship and locked me up in a small coset, He didn’t etrike-me, but told me, in broken English, to get Into the ot, and I did not dare refuse to obey “Shortly after this the tug Mutual took the Frenchman In tow. I opened | the window in the closet and called out to the captain of the Mutual time and again that 1 was being kidnapped, but he paid no attention to me. “When finally the Mutual had thrown off her tow I was released from the closet, and sent on deck to nelp hoist sail. There were head winds, however, and so the captain of the Frenchman decided not to attempt to put to sea at that tine They locked me up in the closet again, and I ttayed there until I was released by the officers of the Grosham. “I forgot to tell you that 1 saw the captain of the French boat pay | Bates the sum of $36, and I suspected then that I was not to be shipped on a coaster, as I knew that was a very large sum to pay for a boy for a short voyage.” FATHER SAYS BOY WAS AN IDLER. | The father told the following story to Co!. Hamilton “¥ was born in Norway, and when 1 was seventeen years old I ran away to sea and have followed the sea ever since. I am a mate on the Pendleton line of coasters, 1 have eight children, five sons besides Hugh and two daughters, and every one of them work for a living except Hugh. He has always seemed to prefer to hang Around the streets and the wharfs insteac- of earning a living. His brothers and sisters have objected to help support him, so when I returned home from my last trip I told Hugh it was time he did something. “‘I think I'd like to go to sea,’ he said. So last Monday I took him to New York, where I met Andy Brown, and he offered Hugh a job as cabin boy at $148 month on the big steamship Gordon Castle, bound for| Cape Town, South Africa. Such a voyage would have kept Hugh away from liome about four months, and he seemed pleased, FAILED TO KEEP HIS ENGAGEMENT “Instead of showing up the next day and going aboard his ship, ha] disappeared that night, with the result that he lost the chance of going on @ fine vessel. “When I found him the next day I reproached him for his action, and he said he was willing to ship on a sailing vessel, and so 1 went back to Andy Brown—the boy is mistaken when he says a man named Bates was geen—and Amdy said he could get him a job on the Frenchman, “He told Hugh that she was going to China and Japan, and Hugh eald the didn’t care, he'd just as soon go there as anywhere else, Then Andy ‘gave me $8, which he sald was customary, and I took it, for it was the first Tuesday morning * 1 was| She ch Consul money I ever got from Hugh in my life, and I thought I would give it to} his mother, “We took him home, and his mother fixed him up with a kit of clothes, | and criet a little, saying she was always afraid he'd go to sea like his| father, but that’s a way women have, anyhow. (He WURLEE tire rena bY bd bed fewest ak 37, 1, P HUGH THOMPSON, WHO WAS SHANGHAIED ON THE FRE NCH BARK MARECHAL DE GONTAUT, AND RESCUED BY THE GRESHAM The boy was immediately set upon by several of the French crew, ove: powered, put in chains and dragged below. Capt. Stapleton went ashore and reported the matter to the police, and an effort was made to get the police boat Patrol down the bay, but she had gone up the Hudson and was not immediately available. HEARTRENDING DELAYS OF RESCUERS. ‘Then the revenue officers were appealed to and Collector of the Port Stranahan decided to act, in view of the fact that the kidnapping of youths and selling them to shipowners was becoming a thriving business along the water front. Word was carried to him very late, however, and it was 9 o'clock last night before he boarded the revenue cutter Calumet at the Battery and started with all steam for Tompkinsville. He was accompanied by Col. Hamilton, iis legal adviser, two deputy United States Marshals, two Secret Service men, and by his private secretary. On theiz way down the upper bay they passed the Petrel coming back. The Patrol reported that the Marechal de Gontaut had hurriedly lifted her anchor and had gone on down the bay in tow of the tug Mutual. The police reported that the Frenchman must then be several miles outside the bar and consequently beyond the police jurisdiction. But Collector Stranahan decided to go on to Tompkinsville, anyway. When they reached there they telephoned Sandy Hook and the observers there reported that the Marechal de Gontaut had gone on out in tow but was coming back, that probably something aboard was wrong. ARMED SAILORS GO WITH RESCUERS. This was good news, and Collector Stranahan and hie escort decided to transfer their headquarters from the Calumet, which is an unarmed cutter, to the Gresham, which carries three rapid-fire Hotchkies guns, an armory and a crew skilled in gunnery. A boarding party of expert saflors in tho revenue service was borrowed from the cutter Tuscarora. About four miles from the Hook the Frenchman was sighted. She had dropped her anchor, as the wind was blowing from the wrong direction and the captain had decided to defer sailing. . Lieut, Katzschamer went on board and found the boy in the galley. The captain objected to his being taken off, as he said that he had paid $36 for Hugh. His protest was disregarded. He offered no violent resistance. |BOY’S NAME NOT IN SHIP'S ARTICLES. Collector Stranahsan sald he had called for and had seen the ship’s articles down the bay, and that they contained the signature of every member of the crew except the boy. This was an irregularity, as a for- elgn vessel cannot take a sallor unless he signs the ship's articles, as well as the papers before the Consul. Another irregularity which will be passed on to-day by the authorities is that of Capt. Dennierre, in which he said he had paid $36 to a hotel runner for the boy. That is against the United States laws. Col. Hamilton said that the matter of Thompson was in abeyance. “In the mean time,” sald Col. Hamilton, “the boat will remain at anchor where she is until we straighten out affair: According to the United States statutes the ship Is Hable to a fine of $20 for each seaman shipped without signing, and the officer in charge js also lable ton like fine If there has been alleged, it will make the ship liable for a fine of $1,00 and a similar ave five men aboard who were not properly signed, as Amount against the captain for the violation of the revenue laws alone. FRENCH CONSUL, SPRINGS A POINT, Collector Etranahan said that the runner who got the boy aboard the ship had not been arrested, but they knew where he was, and could get him at any time. At the French Consu1’s office several of the clerks there recognized the boy, and all agreed that when he appeared there he was told and understood perfectly that he was going on a ship bound for Japan. The Vice-Consul maintained before the Collector that men could be shipped without being signed, but the District-Attorney said that such action was a violation of che United States shipping laws, and intimated that they did not believe the Vice-Consul’s statement that unsigned men could be shipped under the treaty was correct, This brought the invest!- gation to a standstill, and Collector Stranahan sald the question would have to be decided before going any further into the case. PUT MONEY IN HIS POCKETS; SAID GOOD-BY, “She put a dollar bill in one pocket and I put another bill in another pocket, and then we said good-by, and I told him I hoped he would come pack a big, husky, honest sailor man, and his mother said she hoped he ‘would be a good boy, and so he went away. “We didn’t know anything more about st until we read in the papers of a Thompson boy being shanghaled. One of my sons said, when he read it, ‘I'll bet it’s that white-livered Hughey,’ and I thought so, too. That's why I came over here. I guess the truth of the matter js that Hugh hasn't got the nerve to be a sailor. I suppose he is afraid he might fall overboard and get his feet wet,’ and the father glanced at his son with a curious ex- pression. ‘Now, I don’t care whether he goes to sea or not,” he concluded, “He can go, to work in a candy story if he prefers,” CAPTAIN PAID $36 FOR THE BOY. . Gapt. Dennierre, of the Marechal de Gontaut, adm!tted to Collector of the Port Stranahan, who led in the search and rescue of the iad, that he jad paid’ $36 for the boy. > Phe pursuit of the Frenchman with the shanghaled bay started at o'clock yesterday morning and continued until the sensational rescue be All its phases it adds a real Robert Louis Stevenson sea story ¥ to history of the harbor. © told in ‘The Evening World of yesterday, Capt. Irving Stapleton, of , Beandinavian, went aboard the Marechal de Gontaut off je Yesterday morning to dicker with Capt, Dennterre for sup- p with fresh water. “In my opinion,” sald Collector Stranahan, “this is a most important question, and one which ohould be decided at once. If men can be shipped without being signed it opens up all sorts of possibilities.” | It {8 probable that the ship will be allowed to sail to-day with the captain under bonds. he +o FRENCH CONSUL JOUVE IS MILDLY SARCASTIC, World reporter to-day concerning the shanghaing of the Thompson boy, and his young woman stenographer ‘and that a guard of marines iias been placed aboard the boat, Iam very grateful to him for the information, prised of ‘the facts and regret exceedingly that I have heard nothing about it. ficent diplomacy.”* aboard a youth van up to him and asked him to save him | sul was heard to remark “You are sure you told him everything clearly.” Mt vin. the sailing vessel, saying he had heen shanghaied.| Jouve speaks excellent Englieh. . ‘i Vice-Consul Jouve, of the French Consulate, was interviewed by an Evening with immaculate courtesy and delicate sarcasm replied to his questioner through “Say to the reporter,” sald M, Jouve to his stenographer in lquid French, | “that Iam most pleased to receive the Information that the Marechal de Gontaut | has been arrested, that she now lies at anchor, that the boy has been recovered “Tell the young gentleman that I know absolutely nothing about dt and thet OMclally I have not been ap- “Communteate to monsieur,”’ this with a gesture of splendid grace, ‘that I leave it to the newspapers who opened the incident to close it with their magni- M, Jouve then disposed himself elegantly in his chair and looked rapturously out the window while his pretty stenographer was telling the reporter what he had already heard. Just as the reporter was leaving the consulate the Vice-Con- TRAIN BLOWN UP BY MACEDONIANS Seven Killed and Fifteen Wound- ed When Budapest Express ls Shattered with Dynamite on Dash to Constantinople. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Avg. 27—The east- bound express from Budapest to Con- stantinople was blown up near Kulel! Burgas, about twenty-five miles south of Adrianople, early this morning. Seven persons were killed and fifteen were injured, Dynamite bombs were used. Every car was smashed. Apparently the outrage was the work of revolu- tlonists who travelled on the train. The bombs which wrecked the train were thrown by @ thint-class passenger, who was in the buffet-car. The dead include two Turkish women, two chil- dren and three trainmen. ro COULDN'T RESIST THE SHAVING STICKS Edwards Just Had to Steal Them, for He Said the Tefiiptation Was Too Great. Policeman King saw a sliding down a rope ladder from the fourth story of No, 428 Columbus ave- nue early to-day and land on the glass roof over the entrance to J. Tungman's drug store, where he reeled, like a drunken man. The policeman hurried to his assiatance and as the stranger renot@d the efdewa: threp shaving stioks dropped from his trousers pocket. A bottle of patent medicine and some bottles of perfume followed. King picked up the articles and placed the man under arrest. In the West Side Court the prisoner described himself as George Edwards, aged twenty-three, of No, 17 Henry street. Asked why he took the articles he sald “The temptation was too great.” He was held In $30) bail for trial. young man COMLECTOL-STRANAHAN . SN OROWNED ON A SCHOONE Freight Steamship H..M. Whit- ney Runs Down Granite-La- den John Booth in the Sound, Sinking Her Instantly. | Word was received over the long-dis- tance telephone by The Evening World from New Haven to-day of a disaster at sea in which six men were drowned. THE LOST: | SAUNDERS, FRANK, cook. BLIDEN, PETER, sai ‘ Ir. ALEXANDFR, WILLIAM, sailor. FEES, WILLIAM, sailor: Unknown man, mate. | GORHAM, JOSEPH L., passenger, Gloucester, Muss, : ‘The steamship H. M. Whitney, of the Metropolitan ine, bound John Booth in the Sound, just west of New Haven, last night. ‘The schooner was Instantly sunk, with five of her crew and a passenger whose name 1s Joseph L, Gorham, a paper-hanger, of Gloycester, Mass. Daring rescues of the Schooner's captain and a sailor were made, : The sea was rough and the night was dark. The Whitney, a blg steel cratt, used for frelzhting, was proceeding at ALLEGED OPIUM JOINT RAIDED. Wae Located In the Tenderloin and Eight Prisoners Were Taken to Court. Police Capt. Ferris, of the West Thirty-seventh street station, with De- teotives Fry, Griffin and Boyle, raided an alleged oplum joint in West Thirty- ninth street to-~day, Seven men and one woman were arrested. They were all arraigned tn the West Side Court. Capt, Ferrls told Magistrate Mayo that four persons were found smoking opium, while the remainder were vlay- ing cards, \ Joseph Young, twenty-three years old, was arraigied on two charges, one for Keeping a gambling house and the other for keeping an oplum joint, He was held In $1,800 ball for examination “on "The other prisoners were discharged by the Magistrate. —— HENRY D. PURROY’S WILL. Document Distributing His Estate Filed To-Day for Probate. The will of Henry D. Purroy, former County Clerk, who dled’at Saratoga Aug. @, was to-day filed for probate In the Surrogate's Office. Mr. Purroy bequeaths to his widow a house at No, 2607 Webster avenue, with six surrounding lots; a house in Sa: toga, whatever is to his credii in the Central Trust Company of New York and the Citizens’ National Bank of Saratoga, and all pictures, carriages, Jewelry, etc. "The reat of the estate Is bequeathed to his brother, Chief Purroy, and to his cousin, John’ Purroy Mitchell, Mr, Mitchell ‘also receives the ‘watch pre- tented to Mr. Purroy when elected President of the Board of Aldermen. ‘The widow and Chief Purroy are ap- polnted executors, The value of the estate is estimated at not less than, ‘$10,000, f her usual speed when suddenly there loomed up under her bows the white sails of the schooner, The lookout on the Whitey shouted to the man at the Wheel, and several voices on the Booth could be heard calling in warning. In a moment's time the engines of the freighter were reversed and the helm twisted furiously, but it was too late. With a mighty crash the steel prow of the steamship crashed Into the planking of the Bootn, The night was filled with cries. ‘hrough the gloom men could be seen leaping from the 10W sides of the sailing vessel into the sea, The captain of the Whitney ordered his boats lowered, and this was doe speedily, but so Imperfect was the light that the work of rescue attended with great difiiculty. Se al forms Were seen to sink beneath the waters, Dut the figures of two men could be made out, as they swam desperately tn the heavy sea, ‘To one of these went the Whitney's’ boat, and succeeded in saving the man, who proved to be the captain of the Booth, At this moment the white sides of the steamslrip Maine, of the Stonington line, were seen, The distress whistie Was blown, and the Maine hove to. Que of her boats was lowered, and a sailor of the Booth named Carl A. Hessell Was rescued, For over half an hour the two boats hovered near the point where the Booth was struck, and recovered two bodies of drowned sailors. From the captain of the Booth {t was learned that fy his men were missing, and one senger. Seaman Hesnell’s Story. Tre Booth was bound for New York from Long Cove, Me. Hessell, a colored man, was acting as lookout, he saw no lights of any kind on Whitney, He clung toa shar until pleked Up. ‘The captain of the Booth, Thomas. also clung to a spar. Heasell & vening Wogld re+ jorter: ay was acting as Icokout on the nooner, The Captain was at the Wheel, It was quite foxmy at the time. [saw no lights nor did I distinguish the steamer until she was almost upon 1 heard her bells ringing, She struck us square amidshi, Wi loaded with stone and ad, id to an us to sink almost antl as pitched into the water, I caught. hold of a plece ‘of floating wreckage and hung to it, though I was Mbout and had ‘hard work to hold on. I was spied by Maine, Mt ARS “Rat | searchlights for some from New| York to Boston, ran down the schooner a) 2 TPEVENUE CUTTER, “GRESHAM” > bunten and had a large cargo aboard. We had a good trip as far as we went. though we had hard work to weather the gale of the night before the acci- dent. ell Gid vot know the nai rie ot, the vessel, but siya hen we 0 Grew at the time of the collision heard nothing from any of those on pourd after the schooner sank, He was nearly drawn into the water by the Suction when the schooner went down. members of the crew are named Ormerank saunders, cook, Peter Biden, Witlam Alexander and Wiliam Feeney Phe passenger was a man, and hi home was in Salem, Mass. His name :s not known Whitney Not Damaged. The officers of the steamer Main Knew nothing of the details of the "They said they happened niong just after the accident, at about 10 ovclock at might ‘The bow of the Steamer Was not damaged, #o far us known. * ‘The steamer Pilgrim, of the Fall River line, came along soon after the accident and offered assistance, but was told. by the Whitney that none was 5 three steamers used thelt needed. All thre amet ee mart ‘» discover others of the crow of the pa but were unable to do 90. ‘he Booth, It Is said, Is owned In Now London and’ was a new boat bullt last year for a syndicate of that city. \was one of the stanchest three-mast=rs on the Sound —————— SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY. | | gun rises,. 5.21/San eete.. 6.42/Moon rises. 9.39 THE TIDES, Water, Low Water Sandy Hoge eh 5) howernoe 8 i Mfeit Gate Ferry 647 7.39 PORT OF NEW YORK, ARRIVED, sooNew Orleang El sud Alleghany Tripotot Mannhelm ; Moana # “utverpoot INCOMING STEAMSHTPS. 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