HORRIBLE SCENES ON BOARD A TYNE VESSEL.
Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 305, 25 April 1874, Page 2
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HORRIBLE SCENES ON BOARD A TYNE VESSEL.
Mn H. E. P. Adnmson, of North Shields, the owner of the bnrque James Montgomery, has received a letter giving I lie dcinils of one of the most extraordinary outrage? oer com- j mitted on board a British vessel A seaman stabbed four nf bis shipmates without provocation, fastening the master au<l i two of tbo crew in the cabin, and drove the remainder with the mate into the rigging, where lie kept them from dnyliulit J till dark, and until he took the vessel dose into the hind on I the Uorsiciin coast, swam iishore, nnd escaped. The letter said At G a.m., 2Sth November, I was awoke by hearing a noise on deck, and tho other Italian rusljed down into tin? cabin, telling me be was stabbed, and at the same time another mnn came down, telling me that one of the Italians j had cut one of tbo men's throats. In the meantime, the mato bad gone on deck to eec what wns the matter, and had a very narrow escape, as the Italian made two thrums at biin witli a knife, but fortunately missed him, and he got up the fore-rigging clear of him. 'He had attempted to kill two men in their beds, then rushed aft nnd attacked the watch on dccl, striking at them with .1 kntlc, but not injuring them. They rushed to the rig-ting Ho then went into tbo bouse aft, and stabbed the carpenter in three places, and knocked him down with the m.iul. got Ins axo, and took charge of the deck. I w.isin the cabin with the other two men, and dared not come on deck, as we had not any weapons to defend ourselves with. There were no firearms or weapons of uny description in the cabin, and were expect- ing him to come down into t he cabin ewrj minute He asked how many were daw n there, and the Italian told him there were threo. Then he fastened the companion up so that we could not get up. He threw everything mo cubic otrthe deck, so that if they got down from aloft they could not got anything to defend themselves with. He carried the carpenter's axe and a sharp-pointed morling-spilce about with him, threatening that it 11113 one t-uine on deck he would kill him. 'Jho ship was on the Coriucan coast at the time. He steered the ship for the land, and inn her close in, and bailed some people on tlio beach to send u boat, but no boat enme. Just as it, wns coming on dusk he got his clothes out of Hie house and made them fast to the load live, with the lead attached, and a piece of wood for h buoy, und threw them ovei bonrd. Then he took tho iixe and cut a bole in the boat, and then went overboard himself and swam townrd» the shore, which was about n quarter of a mile. Thej thru got down irom nloft nnd libci.itrd v* in the cabin' "We drossed tbo wounds, got the ship otf the land and steered lor tho ucarcst port.
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