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turning opposite the mizzen rigging, as if the axe had been laid there. This seemed to him to indicate that the murderer had come up the companion way with the axe dripping with the blood of his three victims, had turned to the left and walked with it diagonally across the top of the house, which was on a level with the deckload, had left the axe on the house to the leeward of the mizzen boom, had stepped down upon the boards, as Charley Brown afterwards said the first mate did, had gone aft as Charley de scribed, saw that no disturbance was made there, had returned by the same route, picked up the axe, carried it to the forward side of the lashing plank and shoved it under that to await what might happen. The steward was a man of action, and walking aft with his two companions he put his pistol to the head of Loheac, the man at the wheel. The passenger did likewise as the steward demanded of the sailor whether he had heard anything in the night. Loheac promptly replied that he had not. When cross-examined at the trial as to this answer he suggested that the chief meaning of the answer was that two revolvers were pointed at his head. When the steward started to go forward to call the men, the first mate was overcome with nervous fright, hung about the steward, cried with dry eyes, and begged, " You will look out for me, steward, won't you?" The steward proceeded, the passenger and first mate with him, towards the bow. Brown and Purdok were still on the lookout. The steward, showing his revolver, asked, " When did you see the second mate last? " Brown answered, " At twelve o'clock, when I went to the wheel, walking fore and aft on the starboard side." The steward said, " Call all hands. Hurry up." Brown sang out for the men in the forecastle, and they came right up. The steward said to the crew, "Come aft. The people are killed in the cabin." The first mate kept on whimpering, and said, " The captain was a Freemason, I

am a Freemason and I have an old mother." The passenger told him to brace up. The steward ordered all the men, except Loheac, who was at the wheel, to go down into the after house. They went, and the first thing they saw was on their left as they reached the foot of the companion way — the door of the second mate's room open and his dead body on his bunk, bloody with ghastly wounds. He was lying on his back with his feet crossed. His head was cut open in several places, his hand was gashed, and one of his fingers was cut off. The sight was too sickening for the passenger, who had never seen a dead body before. He turned back and went on deck, thinking, as he said, that he had had his share. The door into Mrs. Nash's room was open, and the men then went in there. There on her bed they saw her mutilated corpse. She laid on her side with one leg straight and the other bent at the knee. The only thing she had on was a night-gown, which was pushed up to her knees. Charley Brown, with instinctive respect, pulled it down. The back of her head had been knocked in bysome blunt instrument, such as the back of an axe, the bones on the right side of her head were broken, there was a cut three inches long on the front of her head; and all of these wounds reached into the brain. Her upper and lower jaws were completely smashed. There was a wound on the right of her breast, reaching over her right breast. There was a cut four inches long on her left arm above the elbow. She was lying upon this wound and it was not discovered until afterwards when she was lifted up. A wrist and forearm and thumb were broken and her right thumb was cut off. Her right hand was merely hanging by the flesh. Ap palled by this horror the men went aft through the open door of the chart-room, and there on the floor lay the dead captain. There were seven or eight axe-wounds in his head. One of them was three and a half inches long. This and another went into