| Dr. J. R. Smith of No. 396 Jennings avenue, who furnished
bail for Capt. Holmes, held on the charge of manslaughter, yesterday
afternoon delivered the Idler's master to the United States Marshal and
got his release from the bond.
Mr. Smith called at the office of District Attorney
Sullivan about noon and asked to be released from Holmes's bond, which is
in the sum of $1,000. He was told that he would have to deliver the
prisoner to the United States Marshal before he could be relieved. In
about a couple of hours he returned with Capt. Holmes and was released
from the bond.
Dr. Smith called at the office of District Sullivan
stating that he was to remain on Holmes's bond only over Wednesday night.
Capt. Holmes was taken to the county jail, where he is now
a prisoner, having failed to secure bail.
Capt. Holmes yesterday talked freely about the disaster.
The testimony of Mate Biggam seemed to make him very angry. He said that
his conscience did not bother him any about the way he acted when the
yacht floundered or of his seamanship at that time. "The
yacht," he said, "had passed safety through a squall when
the wind was blowing forty miles an hour and I was confident she would
weather this one.
"No one of the crew spoke to me about taking in
sail before the squall, although I gave orders for taking some of it in
and as soon as the squall struck us and I realized that it was no ordinary
blow I gave orders to take in the rest of he canvas."
The reason Capt. Holmes cut the Idler loose from the
steamer was because the motion of the yacht as it was being pulled through
the waves by the larger vessel was making the ladies sick. The captain
says he did not order the ladies below until he saw that there was rain
coming and when they complained of its being too warm below he opened some
of the deadlights at their request. "When the squall struck us,"
he said, " I ordered the mate to go down and close the deadlights. He
went down and it seems very strange to me that he did not close them, as
they were on the weather side.
"When I saw that the yacht was going
down," said the captain, "I tried to save Jane Corrigan, but
when I tried to get into the cabin the yacht was so far over on her side
that the after companionway was full of water. I stuck to the yacht and
went down when she sank, and I believe that my conduct was justifiable and
that I shall be cleared of all blame for that terrible accident.
Capts. James and John Corrigan have abandoned the
work of dragging the Lake for the two bodies of Capt. James Corrigan's
daughters. All day yesterday the crew of the Lutz dragged the lake bottom
in the vicinity of the scene of the Idler disaster, but without success.
Capts. James and John Corrigan and five men were on the boat which did the
dragging.
The watch on the beach between Cleveland and Euclid
Beach will still be kept up.
Eugene E. Stevens of North Madison, thirty -five
miles east of Cleveland, yesterday sent word that a body was seen on the
beach at that place last Friday. According to Stevens. A farm hand
attempted to swim out into the lake and get the body, but the water was
too rough. The beach between North Madison and Geneva has been
thoroughly patrolled in an effort to find the body Stevens spoke of. |