ONCE ABOARD THE LUGGER.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1915, Page 5

ONCE ABOARD THE LUGGER.

YOUNG LADY'S PLUCK. (Time? «nd Sydney Sun Services). I Vancouver, October 10. | A startling story of the sea is being published in San Francisco, one of the principal actors being the sixteen-year-old daughter of Mr. E. V. Richardson, Vice-Consul for the United (States in Sydney. It is. said that soon after the schooner Schorne left Samoa, the mate, whose name is S. P. Ware, while in a fit of mental aberration, attempted singlehanded to seize the vessel. , The Schorne had a cargo of copra, and Miss Richardson and the captain's wife, Mrs. Plitz, were the passengers. Ware knocked out the captain, John Plitz, and five of the crew with a belaying pin, but a blow from a similar weapon in Miss Richardson's hand laid him out in turn sufficiently for the other members of the crew to put him in irons. Ware, who is alleged to have been the slayer of a policeman in the Canadian mounted force, presented a sorry figure when lie arrived in San Francisco after being six weeks in irons. He shipped at Sydney without papers,' and turned out to be a good seaman, but soon after the vessel got to sea he began to annoy Miss Richardson. Besides the captain, the helmsman{Oscar Anderson), the first officer (Joe Holme) and Shaw (one of the crew), bear evidence of the fight.