The Corvallis Times

MUTINY AT SEA.

CREW KILLED CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS AND THREW BODIES OVERBOARD.

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Liverpool, Feb. 3.—Four of the five survivors of the burned British bark Veronica have been arrested on charge of having mutinied, murdered Capt. Shaw and seven of the crew—and then set fire to the vessel.

The vessel left Ship Island, Miss., Oct. 6, for Montevideo, Uruguay.

Three of the prisoners are Germans and the other is an American, William Smith who shipped at a Mississippi port.

The five survivors were landed here to-day by the British steamer Brunswick, Captain Brown, from Maranham, Brazil, which picked them up at sea before reaching Madeira.

The Veronica's cook, a negro named Moses Thomas, had made a statement to Capt. Brown which caused him to cable to Scotland Yard.

The four arrested seamen say the Veronica was abandoned on Dec. 20 because she was on fire; that the chief officer and a seaman died on board her; that Capt. Shaw and some of the crew left in one boat, and that the men brought here left in another boat and succeeded in reaching Cajuira Island Dec. 25 in a starving condition after drifting for five days, living on eleven biscuits and a small barrel of water, and being picked up by the Brunswick three days later.

The cook, however, asserts that the men, led by the boatswain, a German, mutinied, and murdered the captain, chief officers and others and threatened to kill him if he betrayed them.

He says the murders were planned so the victims had no chance of defending themselves. Each was stunned or murdered separately by the mutineers, who lay in wait for them in a dark part of the ship armed with belaying pins. The bodies were then thrown overboard.

Thomas says he barricaded himself and begged hard for mercy or he would have suffered the same fate.