ner asked me to tell the two maids, who slept in a cabin off the
chartroom. I found their door unlocked, and, receiving no answer,
opened it. Karen Hansen, the lady's-maid, was on the floor, dead, with
her skull crushed in. The stewardess, Henrietta Sloane, was fainting
in her bunk. An axe had been hurled through the doorway as the Hansen
woman fell, and was found in the stewardess's bunk.

Dawn coming by that time, I suggested a guard at the two companionways,
and this was done. The men were searched and all weapons taken from
them. Mr. Singleton was under suspicion, it being known that he had
threatened the captain's life, and Oleson, a lookout, claiming to have
seen him forward where the axe was kept.

The crew insisted that Singleton be put in irons. He made no
objection, and we locked him in his own room in the forward house.
Owing to the loss of Schwartz, the second mate, already recorded in
this log-book (see entry for August ninth), the death of the captain,
and the imprisonment of the first mate, the ship was left without
officers. Until Mr. Turner could make an arrangement, the crew
nominated Burns, one of themselves, as mate, and asked me to assume
command. I protested that I knew nothing of navigation, but agreed on
its being represented that, as I was not one of them, there could be
ill feeling.

The ship was searched, on the possibility of finding a stowaway in the
hold. But nothing was found. I divided the men into two watches,
Burns taking one and I the other. We nailed up the after companionway,
and forbade any member of the crew to enter the after house. The
forecastle was also locked, the men bringing their belongings on deck.
The stewardess recovered and told her story, which, in her own writing,
will be added to this record.

The bodies of the dead were brought on deck and sewed into canvas, and
later, with appropriate services, placed in the jolly-boat, it being
the intention, later on, to tow the boat behind us. Mr. Turner
insisted that the bodies be buried at sea, and, on the crew opposing
this, retired to his cabin, announcing that he considered the position
of the men a mutiny.

Some feeling having arisen among the women of the party that I might
know more of the crimes than was generally supposed, having been in the
after house at the time they were committed, and having no references,
I this afternoon voluntarily surrendered myself to Burns, acting first
mate. The men, ho