Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 29, 1890, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Manitoba daily free press Winnipeg aug. 29. Parting with Phyllis. J Phyia Phylus we Moat part i for a while you will not see me yet i shall not break my parting will from sorrow free me when before your eyes i go i must do my Best to please you Bat the More Ray feelings Klow something seems the More to freeze you. When i wander far away i can keep ail sorrow under. Let us cease this f Ouy we Are better far asunder. York a Boyish Mutiny. Strike the Bell eight stand by fire the gun walk away with the whips Boll dram.1 this was the awful order i once heard Given when i was a boy on an american Man of War. It sent three souls into Eter nity. A person who Bas never witnessed an execution at sea cannot conceive a fraction of the solemnity which surrounds it. Tho death penalty has been invoked but very Lew times within the history of the United states Navy. It is one of those rare events that Are too liable to be shrouded in mys Tery and covered with injustice which malice or nervousness mistakes for discipline. Tho tragic scene i witnessed in West India Waters might readily be called the harshest of names without an infraction of the truth. But it was done in the name of discipline and while it did not receive the Sanction of the government a Board of naval officers acquitted the Cap Tain of crime but the Shadow of that exe cution Hung Over his after life and he lived in retirement from Tho moment he touched american shores till he died. It is forty eight years ago next Decem Ber since i witnessed this tragedy on the continued the old Sailor who was spinning this yarn about an experience at sea. You he ran on we were sail ing from Liberia to the United states and were keeping a Sharp Lookout for slave traders. Ours was a sort of trading ship for midshipmen not like those we have in these clays but one that in those Early Days regarded As fit for educating Young men in the practical details of navigation. I think there were a Little More than a Hundred boys aboard on this voyage and for some months we had enjoyed a pleas ant time without anything startling to re Lieve the Monotony of a Sailor s life. Our Captain was not a popular Man and the Crew often found fault with his orders but no one Ever dreamed that serious trouble was brewing until one afternoon late in november when we were standing head in toward St. Thomas in the bermudas about three Days sail away. Dog watch on shipboard is from 4 to 8 o clock and i was on the afternoon of nov. 27. It was about 6 o clock in the evening and we were standing at our posts us though the ship was ready for action. It might be clearer if i should say that we were at regular Drill which took place every night at g. I was stationed at one of the guns Back of the mainmast. Nothing unusual had occurred to even suggest to us that there was any tiling wrong. A at once came the order from the Captain All hands leave the Quarter deck it was the general Rule on shipboard that the gunners stood at their posts even after the Crew were ordered Forward. So every Man at the gun stood fast. In a Sec Ond came the peremptory order All hands Forward of the mainmast As i moved off i noticed that All the officers of the vessel Savo one were Congre gated about the Captain in the after part of the vessel. The absent midshipman remained at his Post at the forecastle. A moment later another middy was sent by the Captain to Tell this boy thai he desired to speak with him. The two lads neither of them 30 years of age walked aft to Gether. The officers of the ship opened in two ranks to receive them and immediately the commandant ordered the midship Man from the forecastle to to disarmed and put in Irons. None of the ship s Crew knew of the occurrence until later when two of its number were arrested and double ironed. No one on the vessel knew the cause of this act save the officers. For a night and Day almost the silence of death Hung Over the Man of War As it stood steadily on its course. The Crew spoke to one another under their breath and the officers walked the deck doubly armed. The terrible authority of a naval officer at sea was to be invoked and the 120 souls on Board mostly boys fresh from the naval school were to be awed by the scenes which were to follow these arrests. It was the second Day after these men were arrested before the suggestions of Mutiny were quietly slipped among the Crew and middies on Board. No one had Ever heard of it As a Well defined plot but the suspicions of the officers had been aroused and death Kraai to be the penalty. I shall never forget the Day the drumhead court martial was called in the Cabin to de cide the Fate of these men. It did t take Long. When the sentence of guilty was rendered to gratify the Caprice of a vain officer the men were notified that they had ten minutes to live. There was no Cere Mony about the announcement and it was a brutally communicated As possible. The Young boy 13 years of age who was charged with being ambitious to capture the Craft raise the Mutiny and turn it into a pirate ship and command it himself never weak ened although his two companions asked for time to prepare for death. The lad asked to be released from chains Long enough to write to his Mother but the Cap Tain refused and then the boy dictated to the commander a latter to her which the commander never delivered. The scene on Board during the ten min utes in which these three men were pre paring for death made a picture upon my mind that can never be effaced. While the Eider of the two was inclined to weaken the boy was a hero and Only asked for the privilege of sending word to his Mother that he had died like a Man and then asked permission to give the word to fire the gun which was to end his earthly existence. The first Day of december 1842, was a Beautiful one. The tropical Sun especially in the afternoon was tempered by a bracing Breeze and the Ocean was As Calm us a. Mill Pond the first half of the Day. Not a sail was in sight and the Black lines of our ship Cut swiftly through the sea. It was late in the afternoon when we were summoned aft to become executioners. No time was lost in ceremonial preparations. The boy objected to the manner of death and begged to be shot rather than Hung but the Captain replied no sir. You must die from the Yard Arm the lad and one Man were placed on the right Side and the third on the left of the ship. The ropes were quickly adjusted called whips in naval nomenclature and All bunds were summoned to tie dread duty. It is the Rule on shipboard that in an execution every living soul on Board shall Hava hold of Tho whips ropes when the condemned is swung off. Even the Cabin boy and the Cook Are not exempt from this painful duty. This is exacted that no one shall be Able to chide another with having taken part in a death to which All were not a party. In this Case the Rule was enforced to the letter because this was an execution of greater moment than any that had Ever taken place in the american Navy or has Ever taken place up to this Date. The officers were dressed in full Una Arm for the occasion and the Crew were Clad As of for inspection. The ropes adjusted the Captain stood Back and in a. Loud voice gave the com Mand. Strike the Bell eight stand by fire the gun walk the whips Roll As the stroke of eight Bells rung out upon the tropical Nir there was one surge of the whips and three bodies dangled irom the Yardar three men were strangled to death. A neck is never broken by such a method. I shall never forget the scene at this moment. The Crew were speechless with horror. This uncertainty of the past forty eight hours had been almost unbearable and Strong men had grown weak irom the tension upon mind and nerves. The awful spell was broken As we were piped Down to dinner and started Forward. The Captain at this moment caught something of the spirit of the Crew and calling them Back eased the Strain somewhat by Mak ing a speech justifying the execution and urging us to look upon the results of conspiracy and take warning by it. He then called for three cheers for the vindication of the Flag which were Given without heart and then the Crew walked Forward solemnly to their dinner and to discuss the execution As much As they dared. The bodies of the three men were Al Lowed to Dangle in the air while All on shipboard ate and discussed the sad events of the Day. The scene in the officers Cabin was especially striking. For around the table sat those who had condemned three men to death anal at their head the officer who Hud ordered the execution. The details of the alleged Mutiny was freely talked Over so one of Tho officers told me afterwards. But it always seemed strange that a boy 18 years of age Good hearted and full of mischief should have scared the officers of a vessel carrying 120 souls most of whom he would have had to throw overboard had he undertaken the task of capturing the ship and turning it into a piratical Craft. Looking at it today it was a most barbarous stretch of author Ity that would be severely punished now. We had hardly finished eating and talking before a Squall and we were quickly ordered on deck to shorten sail and prepare for the storm. The Bod ies were still swinging to and fro from the Yardar but when Tho ship had been put to rights Tho Captain ordered them Cut Down undressed and prepared for burial. I have seen Many a Man dropped into the sea but on the night of the 1st of Decem Ber took part in the most solemn burial service that was Ever witnessed. Why the Captain waited until after night to commit these bodies to the deep t. not know but the preparations Lor the sad event took nearly nil afternoon and evening and perhaps this was the reason. A burial at sea is a very solemn affair and As the Crew of our Man of War was called aft to take part in the ceremonies there was a sort of dread superstition in Tho mind of every one. Tha night was dark and the storm which had kept us Busy in the afternoon had left quite a heavy sea and Tho vessel tossed and pitched Jis she Cut her Black figure through the bounding Billows looking As though she was a funeral car carrying the dead Over the sea. No one spoke above his breath save the Captain who read Tho burial serv ice. The officers and Crew responded now and then with a sort Ollow int tar which sounded like muffled voices in the distance. No one on Board was quite satisfied with the proceedings for sailors Are superstitious and Tho storm following so closely upon the strangling of these three men and the curious cast of the water and the somber darkness of the night when it should have been Moonlight and Beautiful had its portent to every tar aboard that ship. The ceremonies took place by the Light of Battle lanterns which heightened the dismal aspect of the sen. They were held close to the Captain whose Stern face never relaxed As he went through with his last sad duty to those who had suffered the death penalty. The flickering Light from these lanterns would occasionally shoot out in yellow streaks and rest for a second upon the of the Crew and then shift Here and there As if in search of some new victim to receive the lust offices of the dead. As i said the Captain read Tho service and All of us responded until to came to the words we commit this body to the deep All three were dropped into the Ocean. There was a splash and a sudden gulp of the Waves As if hungry and the tragedy was ended. There was Little sleep in Board that night. Men Lay awake in their hammocks marvelling upon what had occurred und conjuring up All sorts of fan cies As to what it foretold for Good or evil. Occasionally one shipmate would slip Over to another and speak with him in Whis pers. Two men on watch that night declared the next morning that they could see Tho bodies floating in the Waves although each one was sewed up separately in a Hammock with three Twenty four Pound shot at his feet. Two nights later one Man avowed that he saw the middy executed and thrown into the sea walking Over the forecastle. So it went on for Days and nights until our ship reached new York. Then the sailors breathed easier but i have never met one of them to this Day and All of them Are old men now who has forgotten an incident of that arrest und execution. I never sailed on that ves Sel again but took French leave of the Navy very soon after our arrival at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This tragic event had nothing whatever to do with my go ing but i had seen enough of the sea and never recall my experience thereon one of which i am relating to Yon without a the old Salt who graphically told this tragedy of the Stajk wrinkled and Gray. With him was an old shipmate who had been his companion on that fateful so Many years ago. Every flow and then to would add some fresh Point to the narrative that the speaker had forgotten and by the two a wonderfully Complete Story is told. The midshipman that was hanged with the two sailors was Philip Spencer son of John c. Spencer then Secretary of War in Tyler s Cabinet. The event convulsed the nation and brought capt. Mac Kenzie to trial first before a naval court and then upon the charge of murder which the civil courts dismissed for the want of jurisdiction. How strange it is after All these years to find men still Deal ing in the affairs of every Day life who witnessed that tragedy nearly fifty years which Gail Hamilton in a thoughtful review of the Case pronounces murder on the part of capt. Mackenzie commandant of the american Man of Herald. Concerning . Aut inc. The training of m. Antoine manager of the theatre Libre in Paris is of a High or Fler. To hits persevering by infused new life i Uto the characters presented by h is Artistes. One cannot fail to Admire the courage of a Man who by sheer Force of will and his own innate resolve forms a company with Feur varying elements and new Comers and who drills them to a new play each k with no further a Pennise to encourage their Endeavor beyond that which their own intrinsic Talent May be Able to How out for themselves As occasion offers. Thus. Me Visto perhaps the Best actor on the list went from the theatre Libre where he first became known to the Porte St. Martin to take a leading part in Georges Ohneth s Grande he there made a Good hit after which he modestly returned to the lesser stage of his former triumphs. When Paulin Menier broke his Arm and was unable to continue the famous part created by him half a Century ago in the Lyons mail m. Me Visto was once More engaged at the Porte St. Martin where he replaced the favorite and renowned old actor to the satisfaction of. 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