The Mary Weaver

THOMAS, District Judge.

On the night of November i, 1902, at about 2 a. m., the tug Runkle was towing, on a hawser of some 80 fathoms, four dumpers singled out on lines severally about 60 fathoms in length. The tug was bound for sea, and pursued her course down the. Upper Bay until the master of the tug saw, about 500 feet away, the schooner Mary Weaver, whose stern was swinging so far to the westward, as is claimed, that the tug’s pilot deemed it prudent to attempt to avoid her by hard-astarboarding and going to port across her bows, whereby he entered the anchorage grounds. In this way the…