THE MARIE CELESTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 218, 13 September 1924, Page 7

THE MARIE CELESTE.

MYSTERY OF THE SEA A ROMANTIC STORY. LONDON, September 12. The "Daily Express"' publishes a long story by Captain H. Lucy, who was; wounded at the Dardanelles, and who has arrived in London from India, purporting to give the solution of "the I classic sea mystery—the abandonment '. of the Marie Celeste. 52 year; age. when j the ship was found drifting with" all sail? j set and not a soul aboard. Captain | Lucy says he learned the facts 42 years j ago from a man named Triggs, under an ! oath not to reveal them until Triggs was dead. He believes he is now at liberty to speak. Captain Lucy says he met Triggs at I the Bay View Hotel. Melbourne, where ' ■ the latter had been living for five years. :He had not been known to do any work. I The captain discovered that Triggs had i about £100 in a bank, and found him a ! job as boatswain. : Triggs told Captain Lucy he was ; 'boatswain on the Marie Celeste. They ' sighted a derelict, on which they found I a safe containing £.3500 in gold and silver. The captain toook £1200. the t mate £SOO. the second mate £400. and i i Triggs £300. the remainder being shared among the crew. The captain ordered the derelict to be sunk, as it was a i danger to -hirming. The question of the i legality of taking the money arose, and it was decided that they could not sink the Marie Celeste, as she had been I spoken, so the enntain and quitted - iin three boats belonging to the derelict, j which had been used to bring the mone— j aboard. They painted the name of the . ! London schooner on the boats, and on I arriving at Cadiz rpnorted the loss of : the schooner by striking- a submerged ' wreck. The party then separated. The '■ object in -ibandonin _• the Marie Celeste (was to make everything as mysteriouus ias possible. ' ! Captain Lucy adds: "T saw Triggs' ' papers showing he had segued on at i Bo=ton aboard the Marie Celeste, but T ■ confess he always covered his name. I i believe Triggs knew the name of the [ derelict, but lie said it had been obliterated." — (A. and X-Z. Cable.)