TRAGEDY AT SEA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13661, 27 March 1908, Page 8

TRAGEDY AT SEA.

«, | THE NEU.VRE TIGRE AFFAIR. ALLEGED MURDER OF CAPTAIN AND MATE. THE CABIN BOY'S STORY. Australian papers just received- conitain thrilling details of the. story. Bf murder atad piracy in the Pacific whicn wag referred to briefly in recent cable nfessages. ' The accounts in the newspapers recall the Buccaneering days of the notorious "Bully" Sayes, and vie in fascinating horror with R. L. Stevenson's story r< The Wreckers." While lying at a lagoon in the-Gil-bert Islands, Captain Malcolm, of the Laurel, saw from his cabip^door the masts of a*'^ore-anti-aftf* stranded on a reef. There were two men on board. At first they declined to) supply any information in regard to their position; 4>ut subsequently they *vpnt on .the feaurel, and' there tbe younger man of the two, whose name i$ Jackson, told his story. Htr states that a vessel, whose proper name is the Neuvre Tigre, left Callao, in /Peru, with a cargo of coke. There were four men in tne crew— the captain, the mate, 'Mortimer, who was cook, and Jackson, who had been engaged as cabin-boy. • • The vessel had not been at sea many hours when Mortimer made a bloodthirsty attack on the mate and the captain, and \soon had. full charge of the vessel. He armed himself with a rifle, and ordered first tb*e mate and then the^aptain, to choose between jumping and being shot. Both chose to* risk themselves \n 'the water, - one jumping from the rigging and the other leaping over the raflT As the vessel was fourteen miles froni the coast, it is improbable that either reached land alive. Mortimer then compelled- Jackson to promise to stand by him and to help to navjqate tbe vessel. The cargo was jettisoned, the name of the vessel waa (erased, and a perilous voyage was comiropcc'l to Australia, where Mortimer intended to dispose of the property. NHtlitr man knew much about navigation, but they met with no disaster until they reached Apamama, in the Gilbert Group, whero the vessel ran on to a roof, became a hopeless wr>ck,> and was i>und in that condition by tho captain of the Laurel. A : .',tive «:a£istrnto took charge of t^'p two mon, who will probably be sent to Cr I !.^ for trial. If Jackson's story h ™>rr?ct, Mortimer, who i 3 a Belgian, behaved with unboiiding determination a;vl shoffcing, ferocity. EXTRAORDINARY LUNG CAPACITY. Ttw- Value of fle^p breathing in Rs-oM-Jrris, Catarrh, Coughs, Colds y and all chest affect : ons will. bo monj fully appreciated when people o>o enormous capacity of the respiratory organs. We are told that rho Irngs i>rescnt a thousand square feot oi surface, and that the average per son v.hon taking a normal breath comes far si'ort of using tliese organs to their fntyest capacity. It is the unused portions of the lungs that the germs (if •liapaße first secure a foothold to do theirjwlflen work, and precaution slioftinbe taken against further devojopntf'nts as soon as a cold in one sbapoor another appears. The penetrating injrrpdwnta of Baxter Lung Preserver rrach the unused ti«si7es of the hrn;* wifh every breath you take, speedily r*;drH)tp! tho ittflammationJjy stimulalinp{ liic wcakeuerl air cells to throw off tlip distressing mucus. You can-. \\\it have too much .pttre, fresh air tor Found lung hoalth. bnt wheh th<>, Umm\ Hrmptoms of disease* appear— : ccwphu, colds, hoarseness, catarrh, bron|rl)|tis. etc., it is neponHftry to impregnate tJ'e weakened of t^ie lunpf an-1 tlsroat with Baxter Lvnp, Preservc?r to strcUf'stben the parts and hdv yon to oxfTpise tbe Tunga tQ tlj^ir full'o.«< enpsriiy that you may enjoy ' health onco more. Of all chemists and stores. —Advt.