A TRUE SAILOR

Evening Post, Volume 105, Issue 4, 6 January 1928, Page 6

A TRUE SAILOR

RUM-RUNNER TO RESCUE ANSWER TO SOS (From "The Post's" Representative.) SAN FRANCISCO, Ist December. A petition is being sent by the people of Oregon to President Coolictge, asking for the release of Captain Robert Pamphlett, of Vancouver, 8.C., who has surrendered himself, to serve a sentence of two years, which, with a fine of £2000, was the punishment meted out to him when he was captured, with his' rum-running ship, the Pescawha, after coming into territorial waters, in answer to an SOS, and saving the crew of the wrecked American steamer Caoba. Captain Pamphlett asked one favour of tho people of America, prior to going to prison. "Perhaps,", he said, "they will let me run the ferry to and from M'Neil's Island prison. I shall have plenty of time to read ' Sinbad the Sailor.' " Bound.south, out of Vancouver, with a cargo of liquor, he- was outside the territorial limit, when, in answer to the Caoba's call, ho ordered tho helm hard to starboard, came inside the territorial limit, drew alongside the C'aoba, took off her crow just as she went down, and was later apprehended by the fast-.^ est of the United States coastguard _lect on the .Pacific Coast, tho Algonquin. When ho was sentenced, tho Federal Court gave him parole to visit Vancouver and his affairs in order, trusting him to return' on 28th November, which he did. When he gave himself up, and was searched, they found on him a gold watch, inscribed: "Captain Robert Pamphlett, a true sailor, in grateful recognition of his action :in rescuing the crow of our s.s. Caoba at sea, 3rd February, 1925. —Sudden and Christensen." Vancouver people are asking the Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, to intorest himself on behalf of Captain Pamphlett, as the people of Oregon are seeking the clemency of President Coolidge. ...