PERIOD FROM 1871 TO 1905. 697 



Q. "Was there anything to cause them to leave the harbour, or to 

 cease fishing? A. No, and they had not left it when I left. There 

 were no further disputes to my knowledge afterwards. 



GEO. THOS. SNELLGROVE, 

 Sub-Collector of Her Majesty^ Customs. 



Sworn before me at St. Jacques, Fortune Bay, the 17th day of 

 June, A. D. 1878. 



GEO. L. SULIVAN, 

 Captain and Senior Officer on the Coast of Newfoundland. 



(9.) 



Deposition of Silas Fudge. 



The examination of Silas Fudge, of Bellaram, Fortune Bay, taken 

 upon oath, and who saith : 



I am mate of my father's schooner. I witnessed the disturbance at 

 Long Harbour on Sunday, the 6th January last. I am certain that it 

 was on the 6th January it happened. 



I saw the seines in the water two of them American and one 

 English. We told them to take them up. 



John Hickey, the Englishman, took his up. McCauley, the Ameri- 

 can, who owned the other, refused to take his up. There was another 

 seine, which I did not see, in the water, belonging to Captain Jacobs. 

 He had his in the boat at the time. He had shot once and discharged 

 his seine into Thomas Farrel's, who was working for him, and was 

 going to shoot his seine out again. I saw it in the boat ready for 

 shooting when the crowd came over. They first spoke to McDonald, 

 and asked him if he would take his seine up, and he said, " Yes, if I 

 am forced; " and they then went to Hickey and told him to take his 

 up, and he took it up ; then they went to McCauley and asked him to 

 take his up, and he said he w r ould not. They then told him that if he 

 didn't they would take it up for him. They then went to Jacobs, and 

 told him they would let go the herring out of the seine of Tom Farrel, 

 who was an Englishman. Jacobs then drew a revolver, and threat- 

 ened to shoot any man who touched his property. The crowd were 

 very excited. I saw them haul McCauley 's seine in and tear it up. 

 That was the end of the row that day. Farrel had, during the pre- 

 vious week, secured herring in the American seine, and then had 

 placed his own round them, and taken up the American's. This was 

 done before Sunday. It was in this seine of Farrel's that Jacobs 

 emptied his own seine. 



Q. You knew that the American fish were in the Englishman's 

 seine; why was Farrel's seine allowed to remain? A. Because he 

 had not shot it on the Sunday, but on the w r eek-day. 



Q. Are you aware that it was illegal to use seines to catch herrings 

 that time of the year? A. No; I don't know. 



Q. Did you believe it to be lawful to use seines for herring that 

 time of the year? A. Yes, I thought so, as far as I could understand. 

 I suppose the Americans thought, with reference to the destruction of 

 the seine, that we did it in envy of them, but it wasn't; but it was 

 from regard to the Sabbath, on which day we never fish. 



