A ROMANCE’OF THE SEA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1252, 26 February 1886, Page 3

A ROMANCE’OF THE SEA.

The Superior Courts of this city, says the ' New York World,’ will soon he called upon to listen to a story of the most pronounced Jules Verne, order, and. when the case of William Doherty against the Pao fie viail Steamship Company is called, this Dlai-itiff will astonish the court by a wonderful tale of haiibrea th escapes after many close chances with dea'h. The story as told by Doh-rty in an affidavit already put mi the file, is that on th(T sth vtf May. last, year the phiintiff, who was in Panama, asked for an 1 was appointed to the uo-iinn of assistant engineer on the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s steamer Honluras, iiound from thtt port for various stopping pbifles down the Western Sou hj American coast. The crew was a mixed one— Spaniads, Mexicans, and such. Among the crew waa a Portuguese known as Ramon, who, as oi'er, regarded hims If as heir to the position taken by Doherty, and .hate I the newcomer as an interloper. The s’eamer had oniy been five clays Iroiii port when Doherty soys be overheard a, conversation between U imon an I a Spanish passenger, in which it was determined that ihe Northerner should he dirked and thrown overboard. From ihvt time Doherty dared not sleep in hj s birth at m - lit, les. a treacherous Portuguese ebon d thrust a dagger into his breast, 'te caught sleep as he could, standing at his post, and several times he (bought he detected his foe c awliog upon him in the rtaikmss. He says he was compelled to literally do ige for his life eveiy time his enemy "r enenres came near, (or both Ramon and the Spanish pastenger were watching him. When he could en. dure it no longer, Doherty appealed to Alfred Pardee, chief engineer, and was greeted wi'h a round of lau.’liter, an I was advised to jump into the water if he did not care to remain aboard the ship. He made such provision as he c; nld to die fighting. He wrote several letters to his wife and friends j which he directed and left aboard the ship I on‘y to learn subsequently that they had 1 been thrown overbo,;r >, and then waited with such fortitude as he could summon for the attack of the assassins. It c une on the night of ths 2Ut of May. when the ship lay eight miles off the port of San Jose de Guatemala, and Doherty was on the deck watch. The night was black, and the hunted engineer felt that (he occasion waa litre I for the bloody work Ms foes had de determined Uoon. He says he heard a li ht tread near him as he avail washing, and came the rush of the two murderers.

I ohorty drew his own knife, and fought with desperation for life, hut .he o Ms were enormously against him, and. when he w»s forced to the vessel's side, he suddenly turned ani< p unged overborn!, to take a faint fl.oker of hope by swimming to the shore. The water swarmed with sbaiks,

and the faint engineer was in no condition for such a long swim. What gave him nerve and vigor was the thought of wife and babies awav off in New York waiting and praying for his return. He s'ippo ! out of much of his clothes as he diiftnd by th“ vessel’s ride, and then stinted shoreward*. All niuhr. Jong he aile-nately breasted the long swell and fluted—resting ami uan'ing —on his back. Paylight came, and he was still in the water, but the shore, a little over a mile away, gave him encouragement and he soon was aide to stagger, half unconscious, up the ssndv beach, only to drop in a faint above high water mark It was not until noon that he awoke and looked for aid.. He took employment with a farmer, and, when a measuie of his strength had returned, he struck ont for a long tramp, nearly 20 1 miles, across a republic, to a strall s-aport named Livingstone, whence he worked his way home. Then, when in March lest he reached New York,it wss only to find ihat his wife, reiving on the reports that he had jumped overboaid, bad married again. He asked for some sort of recompense from the Pacific Mail' Steamship Company, but .was confronted with his own dea'h certificate as pro if- that, he had no claim. ' Broken down in heafih by his suffe. trigs, he listened to the advice of friends, and be an a suit for 1.6000. claiming that when he entered the service of the oampany he was entitle I to protection, which,, when he applied to the chief engineer was not given him.

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