September 30, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 4 (01:47):
On December ninth, eighteen seventy two, the American brigantine Maurice
Celeste was discovered adrift and derelict close off the coast
of North Africa. She had to sustain in some storm damage,
but she was still an able ship. Her sails were set,
her cargo was intact. Conditions in her cabins and forecastles
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seemed normal. There was no evidence of violence, yet not
a sign was found of the crew that had manned
her officers men and the captain's wife had vanished, and
no acceptable explanation of their disappearance has ever been advanced.
Perhaps this is that story. It would start a New
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York City's Harbor district on the night of November seventh,
eighteen seventy two, the eve of the Mauriceleste departure from
that same harbor.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Have you.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Shoe what is it? Off said, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Did you see a man running past this way?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
I didn't see anybody. I heard the shots.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Who is it you're after?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He just kills some people. No, listen. I thought I
heard something, but I.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Who.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Did this man kill a young girl and the man
she was with, and then he killed the girl's mother.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
He's a maniactor. We've got to get I look down
this way. I'll help if I can. All right, woman,
the boy will be here shortly.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't remember killing her mother. Grace I killed because
I couldn't help it. The man because he came after
me when Grace was down. But I never never meant
to kill her mother. When I heard that I had,
I wondered if the officer was right and that I
was insane. There wasn't time to think of it then,
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only time to think of getting away, and through that
night I searched for a ship that was leaving soon,
one that was badly guarded, so I could slip aboard.
When I found her, she was the Maurice Celeste, and
a drunken deck watch stayed in his sleep until I was.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Hidden in the number two hole.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
There I passed two days and a dream, neither fully
awaken her sleep, but always thinking of the horror I'd done.
And I knew that escape was wrong, that I could
never be sane until I cleared my soul. On the
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third morning, seed to make my presence aboard non so
that I can go to the captain and tell him
of my crime and take.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The consequences I so richly deserve.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I climbed to the deck and I'm immediately seen by
a crew man.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
He who there find out?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Why unders turn?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
What are you doing aboard?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My name is Sam Newcomb, and I I want to
talk to your captain.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You'll talk to him.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Right enough, whether you want to or not.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
How'd you get aboard? You'll be lucky if you didn't
stand the twelve to four watcher last night in port,
because that's that's.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
When it was.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You're a ay for a store away, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
You're no better than a thief.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, I admit that I want no trouble with you.
Please take me to your captain. I'll talk to him
and no one else.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You're taking ball, I'd better stay forward.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Come on, you, you're going to make the rest of
the trip with us. You better drop your airs that
there'll be trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't have any, and I don't think you'll be
troubled with my company.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Oh, I mean you don't think you're quarter with the crew. No,
you expect to be with the officers like an honored gain.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well then, well I don't know. You act like your adaft.
Don't say that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'll your what.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Nothing? I'm sorry. I want to talk to your captain.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
You'll watch what you're doing, say, or you'll be over
the side. Yeah, yes, watch your language.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The skipper's wife is in the next cabin after his wife. Ah,
who's this?
Speaker 7 (06:43):
He just came out of number two hole, sir. His
name is Sam Newcomb. Got a board in the twelve
to four watcher last night in other's watch.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
He'll answer for it. Well, Newcombe, what do you have
saved yourself?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'd like it if I.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Could talk to you alone, sir. H.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That's all boll tell how but I want to see
him as soon as he's off watch. Yes, sir, H,
you realize Newcombe that you committed a crime by boarding
this ship without permission and probably without passport or any
other papers.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I know, sir, But when I tell you why. I'm
not a bad man, sir. Nothing like this has ever
happened before. But something drove me. I didn't know what
I was doing.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Another one who's always wanted.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
To go to see No, uh no, sir, I've been
sailing for ten years.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I'm an able hand.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I I came aboard because, well, I had to get away.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You were in trouble, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I I don't think it was my fault, but I
am wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
What kind of trouble?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, there was a girl, sir, who I was.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
In love with, and well, I don't know what came
over me.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But eh, what did you do to her?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I found her with another man?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And I I.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Just had to get away A love sick young calf Right.
Well that doesn't condulet ben.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Oh, yes, my dear, Oh I'm sorry. I thought I
heard you talking.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yes, this is mister Newcomb. He came aboard illegally the
night before we left.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Well, where has he been? It's three days?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Number two? Old man?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Have you had food and water? Why haven't you come
to this before this?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't know. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He was going to tell me why he came aboard.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't suppose it's important to anyone me, but I
felt that I had to get away.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And it was a girl.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
I almost guessed that a broken heart.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And I know it sounds silly, but to me it
seemed awfully serious, and I couldn't think of another way
to leave as quickly as I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, there's no other way I can allow an affair
of the heart to influence what I must do. In
this case, I'll of my reputation. I'm a fair and
I'm a seamen. Say I could work my way. I'm
not so sure that you deserve the chance.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Whatever you say, sir, then.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh please, Grace great, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Nothing, sir?
Speaker 8 (09:32):
My name Grace is the name of the girl.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It was learning that the captain's wife was bored that
made me change my mind about telling him the truth.
When I talked to him, especially after his wife came in,
everything was turned about. It was though I was the captain,
there's still way with someone else. It was as though
my wife, my Grace, had come in from the next cabin,
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and together we talked to this stowaway, and we felt
sorry for him, and we wanted to be kind to him.
The wife can't be more than three or four years
older than I, and I feel close to her right away.
I think that even if she doesn't know what I've done,
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she understands me. It's a good feeling to have one
friend on this ship through her. Please, I'm sure I'm
not restrained and instead sent to take my place with
the crew and the folks are there, I find no friends?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Well what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Wouldn't you find a.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Better place to quart her?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I was told where to come, Hey, Hubert.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Way up, here's the one came on BOYD during your watch?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Uh what's your figure? You'll be fine a week's pay,
that's right?
Speaker 9 (11:00):
You come?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yes, why'd you come aboard?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Why I wanted to get away from New York Man,
It's got to have a better reason than that.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
You running away from the police.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What then, Well, it wouldn't interest you. It's not important.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
It's important to me, and I want you to know
how I feel about it. Ain't gonna get up.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You, No, I don't want any trouble with you.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
If you don't want no trouble, you cause me trouble,
haven't you. I'll be called up in front of the
camp and because of you.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
But that's done. No way I can change it.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
We got three weeks before we make Naples. You'll pay
for it.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I'll see to that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Through the following days, I knew no peace. There were
four deck hands in the first officer, and although I
had reason to fight because of the way they beat
me and used.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Me, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I was afraid of my own violence, now that I'd
killed the one named Hubbard.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He was the worst. His eyes were always on me.
I wondered why.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There was a night when I awoke to find him
bending over my bunk. He was smiling, and from that
moment on, even in sleep, I felt him watching me.
On another night, I'm on deck and crossing from the
Porte de Stabard, and when I pass under the maniad
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a marlin spike falls from aloft and sticks in the
planks beside me, narrowly missing my head. I look up
to see Hubbard smiling down at me from the rigging.
I try to avoid him, but he drops to the
deck to face me.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
I dropped my spike.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, I know you did.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
What are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You think more than any man I've ever known.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Lucum I'm not proud of that. But why do you
keep after why didn't you leave me alone?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Because I'm a curious man. I want to know truly,
while you're on this ship, your story the captain about
trouble with some woman just doesn't set right.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, no, that's the truth, not all of it. Why
do you say that? Anybody ever tell you you talk
in your sleep?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
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Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'd never been told that I talked in my sleep
until the one named Hubbard and said I did.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He may have been lying, but I couldn't chance that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Therefore, I carefully abstained from regular sleeping habits, allowing myself
short naps only when I knew that Hubbard was at
the Helm or some other ship's business that he couldn't leave.
The horror of what I had done became a secret
that pressed against my head, wanting escape.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
But I held it in, and I.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Took the abuse the men aboard. The only kindness and
relaxation I find by during the moments when I chanced
to meet the captain's wife off watch one night when
it's not safe to sleep, I'm alone, taking a cup
of tea in the gallley when she comes in, Oh,
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missus braggs.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Thinking of you. I haven't seen it when you look ill?
Is something wrong?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
No, nothing now my my Uh sleep hasn't been so
good and.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Your cheek is bruised.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh it's nothing serious, Uh, just some trouble with.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The other hands.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Have you told the captain? No, no, ma'am, why not?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I shall no? Please U uh please, don't have cause
enough trouble. I wouldn't want there to be anymore.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
May I have some tea?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Mister Luclem, Oh yes.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Ma'am, thank you. I think you're a very kind man.
Mister Newcombe, you do yes to protect the other hands
for one thing. They're a rough lot, I know.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No worse than most men.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Ma'am.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
You're very unhappy, aren't you this girl Grace. I know
this is hard for you to understand, but really, no
one girl is worth ruining your life for, not even.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Losing sleepover yes, ma'am. I wish you'd.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Stop calling me ma'am. Perhaps if you did, you could
talk to me about this girl. I think it'd do
you good, don't you. Well, I don't know, tell me
about her.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
I'm sure she's quite beautiful.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
I thought so, and you planned to be married, yes,
But she changed her mind.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
She was never sure. Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
She was ambitious for me, that's natural, and I disappointed
it like I did my.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Family, my mother, everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I am always thinking that I'm doing my best, but
I always disappoint people.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
What did she want you to be? This girl a.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Ship's master like your husband. We dreamed of the day
and she could sail with me like you do on
this ship.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Well, you mustn't lose faith in yourself. It took my
husband years to get his papers.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
There are no years for me anymore.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
She wouldn't wait.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
No, no, she wouldn't wait.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You must have waited, but she wouldn't tell me it'll
be good. She promised to wait, but she didn't. She
never understood that it took time. She was ambitious, and
she pushed me from my officer's papers and I failed.
My family pushed me too. But when I wasn't ready.
They made me fail, and I went away a six
months trip to South America. I tried to jump overboard
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and they stopped me. And then I got back and
found her married to a ship's captain. Her mother was there,
laughing at me. Well, I tried to tell him that
I was happy about it. Then Grace smiled at me,
and something happened. I was only going to kill her.
I didn't even know that the others were there, and
I hit her and she went down, and then this
man came after me, and I hit him too. Well,
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when you get mixed up like that, you don't know
what you're doing, and time means nothing like everything else.
Then her mother well, and I don't remember that, but
she's dead too, and they blame me. Maybe I did
missus Bige. Are you going stay away from me?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
No? No, no, you've been nice to me. Why did
it have to be you that I told every time? No? No,
I like you.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Why did it have to be you?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
No? No, no, no, I don't want to kill you.
I never wanted to kill anybody. No no, no, I
won't hurt you. You know you've been nice to me.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Wait for me.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
No no, no, I won't touch you, but you've got
to promise that you won't tell. I don't know why
I said those things there. They're not true. I get
mixed up. I dream things and then they seem real
after I wake up. That's why I'm such a liar.
I always lie.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's there's nothing that I told you was the truth.
Do you believe that? Yes? And you you won't tell
anybody what I said?
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Huh, I won't tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm I'm glad I'm not comes brigs and finish your tea.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Come on, we'll talk. We'll talk about something else. Who's
the base. Don't don't tell. I knew she would tell.
So I heard.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I went back to the number two hold, where I
felt safe before.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
They found me there. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
How much time passed. I see their landing as they
come closer. Truth is out. There's no place for me
to go. So I stand out from wait.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
And I hear him.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I think Hubbard Pistol ready have to be careful, Yes, sir, there.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
He is, sir, come out of there, Newcombe.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Keep your landing down, Hubbard, keep us some of the light.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
He's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
No, I won't.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I won't cause any trouble, sir, Get him off of there.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
I won't cause any It's all right, sir.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
He's down, dogy little Come lock him up.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I'm not sure how many days passed, but I found
comfort in being locked up because I could sleep without
the fear of Hubbard leaning over me, listening for what
I might say. Then there was one night when shouting
on deck me up. I couldn't hear the words, being
in the middle of the ship. Soon the shouting stopped,
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and there was silence. It was a new silence that
I studied for a long time. I heard no footsteps
on the deck, I heard no voices, I heard no
creaking timbers.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was a dead ship.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I wait for the one daily meal that they allow me,
and no one comes, and then I shop.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Let me out, Let me out of here. Somebody come
and let me out.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If one were insane, he'd surely break it. A moment
like that, I was locked up in a lawn on
a ship that was held motionless, as if gripped by
some great hand.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
But I didn't break.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I dismantled my bunk and from the wood fashioned around
with which I attacked the door. The task of freeing
myself consumed most of the day, and such was my
concentration that I didn't realize the exact moment that the
ship began moving, as if a great hand had released
its grip and set her free, and I was free.
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I come out on deck to find a cloudless sky
and empty see horizons all around, as if I'm alone
in the world, the wheel spinning idly with no one
to attend it. I lash it after fitting a new course.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
To the sails she's wearing.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
The whole ship is mine.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I am master and crew.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I found peace and well being, as if I'd been
absolved of any wrongs.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I ever did.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Because what if not Providence held the ship that night
and sent the others to certain death in the endless sea.
What if not kind Providence decided that I alone would survive.
The meek and the humble shall inherit the earth. This
narrative I swear to be true. And on the second
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day of December, the year of our Lord, eighteen seventy two,
I hereby sign it and seal it in a bottle
to be delivered to the ocean's currents, in the hope.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
That someday it'll drift.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Back to the hated world from which I am forever parted.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
According to scientific theory, a strange phenomenon takes place now
and again off the coast of Africa, near Whethy Maurice
Celest was found. Great rivers of sand are swept up
from the coastal deserts. When certain conditions prevail. The sand
is concentrated by the ocean's currents. Millions of tons are
massed until an island is born, lives briefly, and then
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is swept away by a shift in the currents that
created it. One such island formed under a small ship
during World War II, held it for a number of hours,
then released it, much in the same manner that sam
Newcombe's providence acted. A like occurrence could have caused the
abandonment of the Mari Celeste, but no one knows. According
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to some reports, sam Newcomb's signed confession did drift ashore
many years later. If that is true, perhaps another of
the many mysteries surrounding the Marie Celest has been solved.
That mystery was a short length of line that reportedly
was found secured to the stern of the ship, close
up under the transom, where someone would hide. Attached to
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this line was a man's leather belt that had parted
in the middle. Could Sam Nuw have hidden there when
the salvage crew was put aboard to sail the ship
to Gibraltar. Could he have hung suspended there against the
weakening bolt until it parted and let him sink silently
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And now auto light presents the Mystery of the Marie Celeste,
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Speaker 4 (01:47):
On December ninth, eighteen seventy two, the American brigantine Maurice
Celeste was discovered adrift and derelict close off the coast
of North Africa. She had to sustain in some storm damage,
but she was still an able ship. Her sails were set,
her cargo was intact. Conditions in her cabins and forecastles
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seemed normal. There was no evidence of violence, yet not
a sign was found of the crew that had manned
her officers men and the captain's wife had vanished, and
no acceptable explanation of their disappearance has ever been advanced.
Perhaps this is that story. It would start a New
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York City's Harbor district on the night of November seventh,
eighteen seventy two, the eve of the Mauriceleste departure from
that same harbor.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Have you.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Shoe what is it? Off said, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Did you see a man running past this way?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
I didn't see anybody. I heard the shots.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Who is it you're after?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He just kills some people. No, listen. I thought I
heard something, but I.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Who.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Did this man kill a young girl and the man
she was with, and then he killed the girl's mother.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
He's a maniactor. We've got to get I look down
this way. I'll help if I can. All right, woman,
the boy will be here shortly.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't remember killing her mother. Grace I killed because
I couldn't help it. The man because he came after
me when Grace was down. But I never never meant
to kill her mother. When I heard that I had,
I wondered if the officer was right and that I
was insane. There wasn't time to think of it then,
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only time to think of getting away, and through that
night I searched for a ship that was leaving soon,
one that was badly guarded, so I could slip aboard.
When I found her, she was the Maurice Celeste, and
a drunken deck watch stayed in his sleep until I was.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Hidden in the number two hole.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
There I passed two days and a dream, neither fully
awaken her sleep, but always thinking of the horror I'd done.
And I knew that escape was wrong, that I could
never be sane until I cleared my soul. On the
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third morning, seed to make my presence aboard non so
that I can go to the captain and tell him
of my crime and take.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The consequences I so richly deserve.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I climbed to the deck and I'm immediately seen by
a crew man.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
He who there find out?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Why unders turn?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
What are you doing aboard?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My name is Sam Newcomb, and I I want to
talk to your captain.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You'll talk to him.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Right enough, whether you want to or not.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
How'd you get aboard? You'll be lucky if you didn't
stand the twelve to four watcher last night in port,
because that's that's.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
When it was.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You're a ay for a store away, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
You're no better than a thief.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, I admit that I want no trouble with you.
Please take me to your captain. I'll talk to him
and no one else.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You're taking ball, I'd better stay forward.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Come on, you, you're going to make the rest of
the trip with us. You better drop your airs that
there'll be trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't have any, and I don't think you'll be
troubled with my company.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Oh, I mean you don't think you're quarter with the crew. No,
you expect to be with the officers like an honored gain.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well then, well I don't know. You act like your adaft.
Don't say that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'll your what.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Nothing? I'm sorry. I want to talk to your captain.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
You'll watch what you're doing, say, or you'll be over
the side. Yeah, yes, watch your language.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The skipper's wife is in the next cabin after his wife. Ah,
who's this?
Speaker 7 (06:43):
He just came out of number two hole, sir. His
name is Sam Newcomb. Got a board in the twelve
to four watcher last night in other's watch.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
He'll answer for it. Well, Newcombe, what do you have
saved yourself?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'd like it if I.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Could talk to you alone, sir. H.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That's all boll tell how but I want to see
him as soon as he's off watch. Yes, sir, H,
you realize Newcombe that you committed a crime by boarding
this ship without permission and probably without passport or any
other papers.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I know, sir, But when I tell you why. I'm
not a bad man, sir. Nothing like this has ever
happened before. But something drove me. I didn't know what
I was doing.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Another one who's always wanted.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
To go to see No, uh no, sir, I've been
sailing for ten years.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I'm an able hand.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I I came aboard because, well, I had to get away.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You were in trouble, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I I don't think it was my fault, but I
am wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
What kind of trouble?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, there was a girl, sir, who I was.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
In love with, and well, I don't know what came
over me.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But eh, what did you do to her?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I found her with another man?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And I I.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Just had to get away A love sick young calf Right.
Well that doesn't condulet ben.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Oh, yes, my dear, Oh I'm sorry. I thought I
heard you talking.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yes, this is mister Newcomb. He came aboard illegally the
night before we left.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Well, where has he been? It's three days?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Number two? Old man?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Have you had food and water? Why haven't you come
to this before this?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't know. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He was going to tell me why he came aboard.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't suppose it's important to anyone me, but I
felt that I had to get away.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And it was a girl.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
I almost guessed that a broken heart.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And I know it sounds silly, but to me it
seemed awfully serious, and I couldn't think of another way
to leave as quickly as I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, there's no other way I can allow an affair
of the heart to influence what I must do. In
this case, I'll of my reputation. I'm a fair and
I'm a seamen. Say I could work my way. I'm
not so sure that you deserve the chance.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Whatever you say, sir, then.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh please, Grace great, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Nothing, sir?
Speaker 8 (09:32):
My name Grace is the name of the girl.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It was learning that the captain's wife was bored that
made me change my mind about telling him the truth.
When I talked to him, especially after his wife came in,
everything was turned about. It was though I was the captain,
there's still way with someone else. It was as though
my wife, my Grace, had come in from the next cabin,
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and together we talked to this stowaway, and we felt
sorry for him, and we wanted to be kind to him.
The wife can't be more than three or four years
older than I, and I feel close to her right away.
I think that even if she doesn't know what I've done,
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she understands me. It's a good feeling to have one
friend on this ship through her. Please, I'm sure I'm
not restrained and instead sent to take my place with
the crew and the folks are there, I find no friends?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Well what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Wouldn't you find a.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Better place to quart her?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I was told where to come, Hey, Hubert.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Way up, here's the one came on BOYD during your watch?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Uh what's your figure? You'll be fine a week's pay,
that's right?
Speaker 9 (11:00):
You come?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yes, why'd you come aboard?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Why I wanted to get away from New York Man,
It's got to have a better reason than that.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
You running away from the police.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What then, Well, it wouldn't interest you. It's not important.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
It's important to me, and I want you to know
how I feel about it. Ain't gonna get up.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You, No, I don't want any trouble with you.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
If you don't want no trouble, you cause me trouble,
haven't you. I'll be called up in front of the
camp and because of you.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
But that's done. No way I can change it.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
We got three weeks before we make Naples. You'll pay
for it.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I'll see to that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Through the following days, I knew no peace. There were
four deck hands in the first officer, and although I
had reason to fight because of the way they beat
me and used.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Me, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I was afraid of my own violence, now that I'd
killed the one named Hubbard.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He was the worst. His eyes were always on me.
I wondered why.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There was a night when I awoke to find him
bending over my bunk. He was smiling, and from that
moment on, even in sleep, I felt him watching me.
On another night, I'm on deck and crossing from the
Porte de Stabard, and when I pass under the maniad
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a marlin spike falls from aloft and sticks in the
planks beside me, narrowly missing my head. I look up
to see Hubbard smiling down at me from the rigging.
I try to avoid him, but he drops to the
deck to face me.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
I dropped my spike.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, I know you did.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
What are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You think more than any man I've ever known.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Lucum I'm not proud of that. But why do you
keep after why didn't you leave me alone?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Because I'm a curious man. I want to know truly,
while you're on this ship, your story the captain about
trouble with some woman just doesn't set right.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, no, that's the truth, not all of it. Why
do you say that? Anybody ever tell you you talk
in your sleep?
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Lewis's production of the Mystery of the Maurice Celeste, a
true report well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'd never been told that I talked in my sleep
until the one named Hubbard and said I did.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He may have been lying, but I couldn't chance that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Therefore, I carefully abstained from regular sleeping habits, allowing myself
short naps only when I knew that Hubbard was at
the Helm or some other ship's business that he couldn't leave.
The horror of what I had done became a secret
that pressed against my head, wanting escape.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
But I held it in, and I.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Took the abuse the men aboard. The only kindness and
relaxation I find by during the moments when I chanced
to meet the captain's wife off watch one night when
it's not safe to sleep, I'm alone, taking a cup
of tea in the gallley when she comes in, Oh,
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missus braggs.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Thinking of you. I haven't seen it when you look ill?
Is something wrong?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
No, nothing now my my Uh sleep hasn't been so
good and.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Your cheek is bruised.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh it's nothing serious, Uh, just some trouble with.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The other hands.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Have you told the captain? No, no, ma'am, why not?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I shall no? Please U uh please, don't have cause
enough trouble. I wouldn't want there to be anymore.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
May I have some tea?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Mister Luclem, Oh yes.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Ma'am, thank you. I think you're a very kind man.
Mister Newcombe, you do yes to protect the other hands
for one thing. They're a rough lot, I know.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No worse than most men.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Ma'am.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
You're very unhappy, aren't you this girl Grace. I know
this is hard for you to understand, but really, no
one girl is worth ruining your life for, not even.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Losing sleepover yes, ma'am. I wish you'd.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Stop calling me ma'am. Perhaps if you did, you could
talk to me about this girl. I think it'd do
you good, don't you. Well, I don't know, tell me
about her.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
I'm sure she's quite beautiful.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
I thought so, and you planned to be married, yes,
But she changed her mind.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
She was never sure. Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
She was ambitious for me, that's natural, and I disappointed
it like I did my.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Family, my mother, everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I am always thinking that I'm doing my best, but
I always disappoint people.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
What did she want you to be? This girl a.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Ship's master like your husband. We dreamed of the day
and she could sail with me like you do on
this ship.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Well, you mustn't lose faith in yourself. It took my
husband years to get his papers.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
There are no years for me anymore.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
She wouldn't wait.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
No, no, she wouldn't wait.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You must have waited, but she wouldn't tell me it'll
be good. She promised to wait, but she didn't. She
never understood that it took time. She was ambitious, and
she pushed me from my officer's papers and I failed.
My family pushed me too. But when I wasn't ready.
They made me fail, and I went away a six
months trip to South America. I tried to jump overboard
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and they stopped me. And then I got back and
found her married to a ship's captain. Her mother was there,
laughing at me. Well, I tried to tell him that
I was happy about it. Then Grace smiled at me,
and something happened. I was only going to kill her.
I didn't even know that the others were there, and
I hit her and she went down, and then this
man came after me, and I hit him too. Well,
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when you get mixed up like that, you don't know
what you're doing, and time means nothing like everything else.
Then her mother well, and I don't remember that, but
she's dead too, and they blame me. Maybe I did
missus Bige. Are you going stay away from me?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
No? No, no, you've been nice to me. Why did
it have to be you that I told every time? No? No,
I like you.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Why did it have to be you?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
No? No, no, no, I don't want to kill you.
I never wanted to kill anybody. No no, no, I
won't hurt you. You know you've been nice to me.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Wait for me.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
No no, no, I won't touch you, but you've got
to promise that you won't tell. I don't know why
I said those things there. They're not true. I get
mixed up. I dream things and then they seem real
after I wake up. That's why I'm such a liar.
I always lie.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's there's nothing that I told you was the truth.
Do you believe that? Yes? And you you won't tell
anybody what I said?
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Huh, I won't tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'm I'm glad I'm not comes brigs and finish your tea.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Come on, we'll talk. We'll talk about something else. Who's
the base. Don't don't tell. I knew she would tell.
So I heard.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I went back to the number two hold, where I
felt safe before.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
They found me there. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
How much time passed. I see their landing as they
come closer. Truth is out. There's no place for me
to go. So I stand out from wait.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
And I hear him.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I think Hubbard Pistol ready have to be careful, Yes, sir, there.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
He is, sir, come out of there, Newcombe.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Keep your landing down, Hubbard, keep us some of the light.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
He's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
No, I won't.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I won't cause any trouble, sir, Get him off of there.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
I won't cause any It's all right, sir.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
He's down, dogy little Come lock him up.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I'm not sure how many days passed, but I found
comfort in being locked up because I could sleep without
the fear of Hubbard leaning over me, listening for what
I might say. Then there was one night when shouting
on deck me up. I couldn't hear the words, being
in the middle of the ship. Soon the shouting stopped,
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and there was silence. It was a new silence that
I studied for a long time. I heard no footsteps
on the deck, I heard no voices, I heard no
creaking timbers.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was a dead ship.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I wait for the one daily meal that they allow me,
and no one comes, and then I shop.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Let me out, Let me out of here. Somebody come
and let me out.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If one were insane, he'd surely break it. A moment
like that, I was locked up in a lawn on
a ship that was held motionless, as if gripped by
some great hand.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
But I didn't break.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I dismantled my bunk and from the wood fashioned around
with which I attacked the door. The task of freeing
myself consumed most of the day, and such was my
concentration that I didn't realize the exact moment that the
ship began moving, as if a great hand had released
its grip and set her free, and I was free.
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I come out on deck to find a cloudless sky
and empty see horizons all around, as if I'm alone
in the world, the wheel spinning idly with no one
to attend it. I lash it after fitting a new course.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
To the sails she's wearing.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
The whole ship is mine.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I am master and crew.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I found peace and well being, as if I'd been
absolved of any wrongs.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I ever did.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Because what if not Providence held the ship that night
and sent the others to certain death in the endless sea.
What if not kind Providence decided that I alone would survive.
The meek and the humble shall inherit the earth. This
narrative I swear to be true. And on the second
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day of December, the year of our Lord, eighteen seventy two,
I hereby sign it and seal it in a bottle
to be delivered to the ocean's currents, in the hope.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
That someday it'll drift.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Back to the hated world from which I am forever parted.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
According to scientific theory, a strange phenomenon takes place now
and again off the coast of Africa, near Whethy Maurice
Celest was found. Great rivers of sand are swept up
from the coastal deserts. When certain conditions prevail. The sand
is concentrated by the ocean's currents. Millions of tons are
massed until an island is born, lives briefly, and then
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is swept away by a shift in the currents that
created it. One such island formed under a small ship
during World War II, held it for a number of hours,
then released it, much in the same manner that sam
Newcombe's providence acted. A like occurrence could have caused the
abandonment of the Mari Celeste, but no one knows. According
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to some reports, sam Newcomb's signed confession did drift ashore
many years later. If that is true, perhaps another of
the many mysteries surrounding the Marie Celest has been solved.
That mystery was a short length of line that reportedly
was found secured to the stern of the ship, close
up under the transom, where someone would hide. Attached to
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this line was a man's leather belt that had parted
in the middle. Could Sam Nuw have hidden there when
the salvage crew was put aboard to sail the ship
to Gibraltar. Could he have hung suspended there against the
weakening bolt until it parted and let him sink silently
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into the sea? Suspense presented by Autolite to night Star
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mister van Heflin. This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Autolite,
World's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. Auto Light
is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry.
They are members of the Autolite family, as well as
are the ninety eight thousand auto Light distributors and dealers
in the United States and thousands more in Canada and
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throughout the world. Our family also includes the nearly thirty
thousand men and women in twenty eight great Autolite plants
from coast to coast, and autolite plants in many foreign countries,
as well as the eighteen thousand people who have invested
a portion of their savings in Autolite. Every Autolite product
is backed by constant research and precision, built to the
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highest standards of quality and performance. So remember, from bumper
to tail light, you're always right with Autolite. And now
I'd like to bring to the microphone a member of
the Autolite Family, the producer director of Suspense, mister Elliott Lewis.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
Tonight's Suspense program is the last for this season. Suspense
on television will continue through the summer, starting next week.
At the same time, CBS Radio will present a new
series of true crime mysteries crime Classics by Name, which
I heartily recommend to be worth your listening until Suspense
returns in September. And so until that time, all of
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us of the Autolite family thank you for your support
and attention during this last season. We'll see you in September.
On Suspense.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music
composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. The
Mystery of the Marie Celeste was adapted for Suspense by
Gil Dowd featured in the cast where Joseph Kerns, Jenet Nolan,
Paul Freese, Daniel Hurlehee Hal Gerard and William Conrad van
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Heflin may currently be seen in Shane at George Stephens Production.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
For paramount.
Speaker 12 (28:47):
You can buy auto light resistor or standard type spark plugs,
auto light electrical parts and auto light stay full batteries
at your neighborhood Autolite dealers switch to autolight, Have a
good summer.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
And good night.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
This is the CBS Radio Network.
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