Was Not Chasing the Ethelred
A tense moment at sea between a Spanish cruiser and a British fruit steamer, explained away as coincidence rather than pursuit — a small footnote in the broader climate of suspicion surrounding the Cuban conflict.
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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Page 1
1 min readKINGSTON, Jamaica, April 20.
The arrival of a Spanish cruiser at Port Antonio close in the wake of the British fruiting steamer Ethelred from Boston is now said to have been a coincidence but not a chase. Captain Hopkins, master of the fruiter, thought he was being pursued into English waters and so did the spectators on shore, who were considerably wrought up about it. The commander of the war ship explains that he put in here in search of some Cuban insurgents who are said to have escaped Saturday for Jamaica. The fugitives the man-of-war was looking for have landed safely on the island.
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