heavy southeaster blowing, and the pur- suer proved less venturesome than the ~ pursued. Jemmy had a sack of flour, a pound of sugar and two pounds of tea. The schoon- er carried enough coal to steam forty miles. He was not safe from British or American law anywhere short of Mexico or China where custom’s officers could then be found to overlook such things as lack of proper ship’s papers. Radio had not been invented, and there was no tele- graph in British Columbia north of New Westminster. But Jemmy had no safe escape route unless-he went northward around Vancouver Island to the open Pacific. Biurr Dipn’r WorK So he sailed boldly into Nanaimo where he had loaded many a cargo of coal. He flew the American flag and asked for a clearance to Victoria with a cargo of coal. He made a rambling statement about leav- ing Port Townsend in a gale which had prevented him going to Victoria or like- wise getting his clearance papers. Capt. William H. Franklyn was port officer as well as stipendiary magistrate and chief constable. He ordered the Van- couver Island Coal Company not to supply the Jenny Jones with coal. : Capt. Franklyn was a veteran of the merchant navy who had served with dis- tinction during the Crimean War. He earned the reputation of being a fearless HAYWARD’S B.C. FUNERAL Co. LTD. Established 1867 734 Broughton St. _—- Victoria, B. C. Reginald Hayward, Managing Director * This Is Our 80th Year in Business in Victoria and impartial magistrate who did much to check the unruly and lawless element among both Europeans and Indians. But he was a cautious administrator and de- cided to send a canoe to Victoria for in- structions from Governor Kennedy as to what to do about Capt. Jemmy Jones. Jemmzy could think faster than that. In the little coal town of about two hundred people he had friends willing to subscribe money enough to hire ten Indians to load about ten tons of coal from an old mine dump on Newcastle Island. He could stop anywhere along the coast to cut wood to burn with this inferior fuel. Jemmy also wangled an order for fifty tons of coal from the North Pacific Coal Mine at Fort Rupert (Beaver Harbour) at the north end of Vancouver Island. When Capt. Franklyn discovered that the Jenny Jones was getting up steam he ordered Constable Gough and three special constables to go on board and hold the schooner until the Governor’s orders arrived from Victoria. Jemmy Jones didn’t wait to be trapped like that. The officers had no means of following him out into Georgia Strait. The assump- tion was that he would head direct for Fort Rupert, merely stopping along the shore of Vancouver Island to cut wood to burn with his coal dust. For the time being Jemmy Jones and his schooner vanished, and interest in him gave way to excitement caused by the finding of the sloop Deerfoot bottom up on the shore of Entrance Island. Exam- ination showed the wrecked craft had been stripped of everything of value, the natural conclusion being that this indicated another Indian outrage—many trading vessels had been attacked by Indians and looted after murder of the crews. Nothing was known of the fate of the three men who had sailed from Victoria on the Deerfoot. During this same month in 1865, the Nanaimo Packet had been plundered by Indians at Bella Bella. But at this time it was not suspected in Nanaimo and Victoria that the Deer- foot ‘mystery had any connection with Jemmy Jones. Governor Kennedy continued the stern and vigorous policy, which had first been that of Governor Douglas, of sending a warship to deal with Indian murderers. The gunboat H. M.S. Forward, com- manded by Lieut. Hon. Horace D. Las- celles, sailed up the coast as far as Fort Rupert, keeping a look-out for news of the Jenny Jones also. They soon got word of the runaway schooner. Capt. John Swanson, south- bound in Johnstone Strait in the Hudson’s Bay Co.’s steamer Ofter had passed Jemmy Jones. “Where are you bound?” Capt. Swan- son had hailed Jemmy in surprise at dis- covering the well known schooner so far out of her usual waters. “To Shanghai!” replied the irrepres- sible Jemmy. “To load live coolies for the British Columbia mines!” With regard to the Deerfoot affair the Victoria Chronicle declared “The whole plot was arranged for several weeks be- fore the Deerfoot left Victoria; she was to provision the steamer Jenny Jones for the long voyage. The plot was cunningly conceived and cleverly executed.” It was asserted that the owners were personal friends of Jemmy Jones. In any event the Jenny Jones fell in with the Deerfoot north of Nanaimo. The sloop had been provisioned osten- sibly at least for a trading cruise as far north as Stikine River. It happened that the sloop was leaking badly, so all her supplies and everything of value was transferred to the Jenny Jones. Jemmy Jones took the Deerfoot in tow but she leaked so badly she had to be set adrift. Walters, the captain of the Deer- foot, was hired to navigate the Jenny Jones and her owner was also offered good wages to join the schooner’s crew. The owner wrote from Fort Rupert to ST. JAMES HOTEL AND APARTMENTS Recently Renovated Throughout Reasonable Rates Douglas and Johnson Sts., VICTORIA, B. C. Dealers in 1807 STORE ST. Telephones: Office B-3105; Wharf E-2715 EVANS, COLEMAN & JOHNSON BROS. LTD. | | BUILDING SUPPLIES, Etc. VICTORIA, B. C. McLennan, McFeely & Prior, Ltd. — 1400 Government Street, Victoria | inl SySPAGE SIS WANEN Whaat COMPLIMENTS OF Phone G1111 SEVENTEENTH EDITION Page Thirteen