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 Why Thomas Bram interested in religion at a mission house. Afterwards he was sent to Boston to man age what was called "a religious restaurant" there, — an eating-house where religious services were held. He was engaged to be married to a girl in Brooklyn, New York, and went back there, married her and brought her to Boston, and lived in East Cambridge. After a while they returned to New York, where he managed another res taurant, and before long he was sent to Chicago to manage one there. He returned to New York, and tried to run an eatinghouse on his own account, but, not succeed ing, sold out and went to sea in the year 1888, the same year in which he was natu ralized as an American citizen. He served in several vessels and became mate and cap tain. He had three children, but had lived apart from his wife and them for some time. They lived in Brooklyn, New York. He saw his wife last on the fourth of July, 1895. He had followed the sea steadily up to the time of meeting Captain Nash on the ninth of June, 1896. He told the captain that he came from Nova Scotia. But he never was there for longer than a month, and that was four years before. On the tenth, Bram was employed as first mate of the " Herbert Fuller," and went aboard of her to live. The captain's wife, who also came from Harrington, was going to sea with her husband, but she was then absent, and the captain left the vessel in charge of the first mate, a part of the time, in order to join his wife. The first mate then lived alone in the after house, and his meals were there served by the steward, a mulatto named Jonathan Spencer, a native of the British West Indies, who was -the cook and had his galley and bunk in the forward house. In the latter half of June, a young man of twenty years, named Lester Hawthorne Monks, of Brookline, Massachusetts, a stiident in Harvard University, who was intending to take a sea-voyage for his health, visited the

Found Guilty. "Herbert Fuller." There he found the first mate, who advised him not to go on a sail ing vessel. Monks, however, decided to go on that vessel and succeeded in engaging a passage from the captain, who let the pas senger have his own cabin. Therefore the captain used the chart-room for his cabin and slept there on a cot which was placed on the starboard end of the room, with the head towards the stern and the foot towards the door of the passenger's cabin, which opened into the chart-room. The chartroom was about 12 ft. 3 in. athwartships by 9 ft. 4 in. fore and aft. The passenger, in preparation for a long voyage, brought with him, a bottle of brandy, a bottle of whiskey and sixty bottles of beer,' besides necessary clothing; and a couple of his trunks were laid in his cabin, one against the door between his cabin and the cabin of the captain's wife, and the other near the door and partly in front of it. This door was locked when the passenger took the room and remained so while he was on the vessel. A man named August Blomberg, a Rus sian Finn, was engaged as second mate. The steward said he saw the second mate drunk before the vessel sailed. One day when the captain's wife had gone ashore and returned with a new dress on, the first mate said to the steward, "Cal ico makes a great change with a woman." • There were six men in the forecastle. Ju lius Leopold Westcrberg, a Swede, was called Charley Brown for short. He had had a curious experience after one of his voyages. He went ashore at Antwerp and was paid off, and- started by train for Rotterdam. On the way there in the cars he was seized with a terror of the people about him, and on reaching Rot terdam and going to bed he laid awake and the next he knew was that he waked up in the ward of a hospital. The attending physician told him that he had been out of his head for a fortnight, and that when some