a friend in Victoria that Jemmy Jones
“will take all heavy stores and some of
the cargo off my hands at a good percent-
age—so I think I will be able to cover any
loss. I shall be back about the end of
June.”

Taunts AMERICAN AUTHORITIES

It suited the pawkish sense of humour
of the Welshman to have a letter written
for him to the U.S. consul in Victoria,
saying “I have the honour to forward you
the enclosed papers left on board by the
U.S. Marshal for Washington Territory.
I beg to express my most sincere regret
for any inconvenience caused by delay
and detention of the same.” The papers
were the Marshal's authority to sell the
Jenny Jones. Conviction for the offence
of taking a vessel away from the Marshal
carried with it a penalty of as much as
twenty years in the penitentiary.

H. M.S. Forward arrived at Fort
Rupert more than a week too late to
catch the Jenny Joucs. The captain of the
Otter heard from Indians of the fugitive
having cut wood on the west coast of
Vancouver Island.

Without being molested, Jemmy Jones
made the run south to San Blas in Mexico
where he got a cargo for the French
troops at Mazatlan (Mexico still being
held by the French). There “Black
Dutch” Albert, one of Jemmy’s crew,
claimed $1,000 in wages and applied to
have the steamer seized until he was paid.

He also made a statement under oath
that Jemmy Jones had run away with
the ship from the U. S. Marshal. Tis
evidence was unsupported, there was no
telegraphic communication, and the consul
dil not believe him.

However, the consul had the Jenny
Jones held until the wage claim could
be settled. The French soldiers unshipped
the rudder as an effective means of pre-
venting the elusive schooner getting away.

Thus situated, Jemmy Jones had no
choice and had to accept a Mexican offer
of $10,000 for the vessel. After this com-
pulsory settling of his debts Jemmy Jones
sailed for San Francisco. There he was
unfortunate enough to run into a “skedad-
dler” from Victoria who promptly in-
formed the police.

Jemmy got a prompt trial and a brief
one. The judge ruled that the evidence
proved the Jenny Jones had not left the
Marshal, but that the Marshal had left
the Jenny Jones, which was no offence
against the laws of Washington Territory
so far as Jemmy was concerned.

The Marshal, William Huntingdon,
was not so lucky. Spratt & Kriemler,
makers of the engines of the Jenny Jones,
sued him and the sureties upon his official
bond for $4,600 with interest at the rate
of two per cent, per month and costs of
the suit, for “culpable negligence and
malfeasance in office in permitting the
escape of the steamer Jenny Jones while
in his possession as Marshal.”

_ Judge

Sprat & Kriemler evidently had a cer-
tain amount of success in their suit, as a
little over a year later it is recorded that
Darwin at Steilacoom added a
very curious rider to his conviction of
Chas. Hughes for “felonious abduction
of the steamer Jenny Jones while in cus-
tody of the U. S. Marshal.”

Hughes was engineer at the time of
the escape. The judge sentenced him to
four years’ imprisonment and a fine of
$2,000, but said if Hughes paid Hunting-
don the $2,000 which Huntingdon had
paid the judgement creditors of the ship,
the court would at the end of two years
recommend pardon and remission of the
fine.

Jemmy Jones was arrested a few

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