On October 1905, the schooner Harry A. Berwind, a wooden commercial vessel bound for Philadelphia from Alabama, was turned into a slaughterhouse when a gun was turned on its crew.
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Murder on the high seas is the subject of a gripping event on Wednesday, June 15, at Weymouth Center, as Writer-in-Residence Charles Oldham reads from his newly released “Ship of
The story begins when officers from a neighboring ship climb aboard to investigate a cargo ship’s distress signal. They find bloodied decks, one crew member tied up, one crew member dead, and reports that all four of the ship’s officers had been murdered and tossed overboard.The three men still alive were Black. The four dead officers were white.Would it be possible for the accused to get a fair trial in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1905?