FEUD IN A FO'C'STLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 976, 17 November 1910, Page 5

FEUD IN A FO'C'STLE.

AND SOME WARLIKE DOINGS. "Bad - blood" apparently exists among certain members of the'crew of a-vessel in port kt present. ' It isireported that a discord .in. the- fo'o'stle," long -simmering, has reached bo'iling-'point 'Since, tho.ives-' ■': -sel arrived here. . And'it has;been something 'more' than an ebullition in .-a kettle.';-' On 'Monday night one of the' disputants is stated, to have fled before, a brandished-sheath knife, and sought sanctuary 'in : the captain's." cabin. r Subse' r quently, accompanied' by one of . his--own faction;' he ''quitted his-temporary " retreat, slid over the side of - the ship, and faded into the'.darkness. But be did not fade quickly' enough,"and when the two . Jjad got fairly well into the city they per- • ceived' .the . proprietor of -the sheath-kiiife following them at -a strategic distance. The fugitives,however; executing - a : ' clever'feint, baffled the pursuit by. rapidly changing-from one-tramcar-to another. The next act of tho little drama occurred on the following evening, when hostilities were reopened. While the men were at supper; a-, sharp altercation arose, and the upshot was that the man ; who had assisted his mate to escape on the . previous evening was suddenly stabbed in the'cheek 1 with a table fork. The wounded one again fled the vessel, had injury .attended to by a doctor, and stayed ashore all night, being afraid to go back to the ship, and the sheathknife,'for the owner:of the:weai?on had announced certain serious intentions in / pretty;plain language.. v