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mast, and told Chief Officer Charles
Grainger that a deputy-sherriff was now
in charge. A certain P. McQuade had
libelled the ship for debt.

Capt. Jones scurried around and raised
enough money to get the sheriff to re-
lease the Jenny Jones. Allen Francis,
U.S. Consul, brought the mails on board
again and told Chief Officer Grainger
that Jemmy had clearance papers for the
ship to sail.

Suir AGAIN SEIZED

3ut events were moving faster than the
consul realized. Spratt & Kriemler held
a mortgage on the Jenny Jones. They
had the ship seized and Jemmy Jones
thrown into the debtors’ prison in accord-
ance with the quaint customs of those
days.

In gaol was a very good place for
Jemmy Jones to be for the next few
hours. It saved him from any active
part in the bold, carefully planned coup
carried out by some of his friends and
the crew of the Jenny Jones.

Five rather crestfallen men rowed a
small boat into Victoria harbour about
daybreak. They were the two sheriff's
officers and their three assistants who
had been on board the Jenny Jones.

“arly yesterday morning,” they told
the police, “a gang of thirty or forty
men—some of them armed with pistols
and knives, suddenly boarded the Jenny
Jones which was then lying at the Hud-
son's Bay Company Wharf. One of the
villains thrust a pistol into a deputy’s
face and threatened to blow out his brains
if he tried to resist.

“They drove us into the forecastle and
battened down the hatches. The scound-
rels then cast off the lines, and having
procured several boats, towed the steamer
outside the harbour. Then they hoisted
sails. (The sheriff had ordered a piston
rod removed from the engine to prevent
escape.) When about seven miles off-
shore we were released and told to get into
a boat and row ashore.”

The Victoria Chronicle commented on
the extraordinary fact that “a crime re-
quiring so much time for its execution
could have been committed beneath the
very nose of the police authorities and
the Hudson’s Bay Company watchman
without either knowing anything about
itis
SEVENTEENTH EDITION

Jemmy's men sailed the Jenny Jones
into Port Angeles across Juan de Fuca
Strait. She was boarded there by cus-
toms officers who found she had goods
aboard but no register or manifest. There-
fore the Jenny Jones was liable to seizure
under United States revenue laws—one-
half of the value of a confiscated ship
went to the officer making the seizure if
a court ordered forfeiture and sale to the
highest bidder.

Capt. Jemmy Jones was in a desperate
position now, and threatened with loss
of all he had won in ten years of struggle.

“T had a fellow prisoner for compan-

ion,” Jemmay, told a friend, John Arnoup,
later. “But this by no means reconciled
me to my position, for companions in

misfortune do not after all make one’s
position a comfortable one, and I deter-
mined the first opportunity to make my
escape.

“Tn doing this I had no desire to run

away from the responsibility of my debts.

My imprisonment could not and would
not benefit my creditors, while it would
inflict an injury on myself. I considered
it was my duty to get away, and I know
it was the duty of the prison authorities
to br event me from doing so.

“T laid my plans. Observing a police-
man came round every night to see if I
was in bed, previous to locking me up,
I attempted to deceive him by placing a
dummy in my bed, which I constructed
from the hair from my mattress and my
shirt. I made this as near as I could to
the human shape and covered it very
carefully and tenderly with the bed clothes
and put on it my hat and also my necktie.
The (ae was part of a loaf of bread.

“There lies, thought I, a second Jemmy
Jones, the best I can construct, and I was
sorry I could not give it the power of
snoring, as then my escape by means of
this would be certain. However, such as
it was, I thought it a work of art well
calculated to deceive.

“A little before six o'clock on the night
of February 21st I slipped out of the
room and secreted myself in a small build-
ing in the prison yard.

“Shortly after as usual a policeman
came to an adjoining building and observ-
ing that there was someone without a
hat, supposing it was I, he went back to
the debtors’ prison, and as I afterwards
learned, in touching my work of art ruth-

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