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i animation, verbatim. sumiking 1 ----------I he C/Iiali.enge.—In our hist, thertyofj our last, the,1 by crovv^C(^ *state of our columns preventedour «iyinS an account of the barbarousntivo2 verycon- outru08 on tho cro^ of tho clipper ship Challenge, by the captain, Waterman,and Douglass, the mate, which intclli-nflm- S.CnC° arr,v*don th(J nght of publica-de of t'.0n* 1,1C mo8t a*°kening accounts arewith ^ K‘VCn °f tlu! cnndition of the crew when ' boarded by the officers of theo ourfcered ’ our cticc ount-ee, a and •eful-n theclias-it is.re tlt;soonadvuthese*uit isownwillnarrT1vide a nuiis 111bareand .u °y the officers of the port—their limbs mangled and brubed, and manyof them at the point of death. It i9 saidthat ten men have died on the pas- ‘sage from the brutality of the fiends in ,ixtho shape of captain and mate. It issaid that on one occasion, tho men inin the yard not reefing sufficiently fust aI,dto suit him. Waterman cut the halyards woaand let three of them off into the sea.where they were drowned.I I he captain and mate escaped from 1 the ship before it came to moorings. A„ n I i ‘r£c m°b °f boatmen and others sur-ii tiie I titrounded the counting room of Messrs.Alsop Co., and searched it to obtain»,,ia i Posscssion of the villains, but did no fur- \Mill.* I ,iition ief ,ng0- Douglass, however, was . . duty caPtnre(1 on t,,c morning of the 3d in.st.,in a cart, covered up, on the road to San » e , ...fitter r ourThefortrep;prol.-am\\cei\thisbe ( ter:self *(we' sa*d ko w,ls on bis way to Monterey to meet the s! earner. The °Andubliccaptain was supposed to bo ahead onsomatice we r0alt;^’ aillt;^ a PartJ woro lu pursuitof him rI he citizens of San Francisco ' ' best. ,______ ..... x , ... the|o so kno'v bow to uso such scoundrels, and I his WG ^°Plt;' *Ucy will give them their dels aj* scrt8, The ship has been libelled bypub- t^° * n‘tcd States Marshal, on a suit by the crew.caninaseniro«rec
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Nevada City Journal
Nevada City, California, US
Thu, Nov 06, 1851
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