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09 Feb 1886 in an article in The Daily Morning Astorian it stated that: RETRIBUTION. In the latter part of January the telegraph brought an account of a mutiny on board the American ship Frank Thayer, off Capo of Good Hope, while in route from Manilla to London, and the murder of the captain Clarke by his crew. The murder and mutiny were dreadful and deserve punishment, but there may have been extenuating circumstances. The previous record goes far to show that Captain Clarke was not wholly undeserving of his fate. The trial of Captain Clarke of the American ship Sunrise at San Francisco in the summer of 1873 was a criminal trial of great notoriety. Shortly after his arrival, several of his crew charged him with great cruelty. He, with his two mates, Harris and Maloney, were tried on these charges before Judges Sawyer and Hoffman. The trial…