TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 15

TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY

A TINY SLOOP’S VOYAGE MAN’S DEATH DURING QUARREL. Adventures in veal life which might well have graced the pages of imaginative fiction lately befel the crew of a tiny sloop during a daring and triumphant voyage agross the Atlantic. Dr Francheschi Caballero, of Porto Rico, with a sailor named Calvo, left New’ York on July 21 in the sloop Mary. Three days out tho crew of two found a stowaway on board, Roberto Lopez. After weathering storms and hardships in a hazardous crossing of the Atlantic the tiny vessel' arrived at Gibraltar. From there the story of their dangerous trip was sent to spain, and tho two men were assured of a great welcome when they reached Spain. Caballero and Calvo retraced their course, and from Gibraltar cruised along the coast of Spain and sailed up the Guadalquivcr River for Seville. They were passing tho village of San Lucar Barraraeda, a short distance from where a crowd waited to welcome them when a quarrel broke out. Calvo, it is said, attacked Dr Caballero with a knife. The latter drew a revolver, fired, and Calvo fell overboard and disappeared. Dr Caballero and Lopez were put in gaol and tho sloop seized. Lopez has now been released after making a statement. He declared that friction arose between the two men soon after the Atlantic crossing had begun. They quarrelled several times during the passage, and feeling was tense between them after they arrived at Gibraltar. Calvo was jealous of the fame and publicity given in Spain to Dr Caballero, and ho hinted, said Lopez, that he would try to secure the tin" boat for himself.

Calvo’s body lias not yet been recovered, and it is rot yet proved how be met his death, by shooting or bv drowning.