Murder Aboard the Herbert Fuller

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In the eerie stillness of a moonlit Atlantic night in 1896, aboard the doomed Herbert Fuller, a savage cry pierced the darkness. What followed was a chilling discovery: The Captain, his wife, and the second mate lay brutally murdered in their blood-streaked cabins. Panic seized the crew as suspicions and paranoia grew, turning the once peaceful vessel into a floating nightmare, hundreds of miles from port. SOURCES Hiam, C. Michael (2019) Murder Aboard: The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram. Lyons Press, CT, USA. Morddel, Anne (2020) American Merchant Seamen of the Early Nineteenth Century: A Researcher’s Guide. Self Published. The New York Times (1896) Triple Murder At Sea. Wed July 22 1896, p1. NY, USA. The Boston Globe (1896) Mutiny And Murder. Wed July 22 1896, p1. Boston, USA. The Boston Globe (1896) Bram Talks. Fri July 24 1896, p1. Boston, USA. The Boston Globe (1896) His Life In Their Hands. Tues Dec 15 1896, p5. Boston, USA. The Boston Globe (1896) For Murder. Wed Dec 16 1896, p5. Boston, USA. The Boston Globe (1897) Guilty OF Wilful Murder. Sun July 03 1897, p1. Boston, USA. ------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In the eerie stillness of a moonlit Atlantic night in 1896, aboard the doomed Herbert Fuller,
0:11.8	a savage cry pierced the darkness.
0:14.7	What followed was a chilling discovery.
0:17.3	The captain, his wife, and the second mate, lay brutally murdered in their blood street cabins.
0:23.3	Panics sees the crew as suspicions and paranoia grew, turning the once peaceful vessel into a floating
0:30.0	nightmare, hundreds of miles from port.
0:33.0	This is dark histories, where the facts are worst in fiction.
0:37.0	Hello and welcome to season 8 episode 13 of Dark Histories. I'm Ben your host as always.
0:48.4	It's good to be back on the mics. Good to be talking to you again. It's been a little bit of a break. We've had a sort of weak stutter.
0:56.2	My landlord, very nice of him, got the builders in. I didn't realize they'd be quite as disruptive
1:01.6	as they were, but it's a good thing in the end so yeah
1:05.9	happy days but was a little bit more disruptive than I expected so yeah the
1:11.0	episode is a week late to put a sort of positive spin on that, I was going to have to
1:16.1	stutter an episode at some point anyway to make the rest of the season, the second half of the
1:21.5	season fit schedule. So it kind of worked out I didn't plan it
1:26.0	this way but it's kind of worked out so you know that's good but yeah apologies
1:30.9	for the the week late episode but we're there in the end. This week we're back at sea except from this boat is very different to the last boat.
1:40.0	So let's get straight into it. This episode is called Murder aboard the Herbert Fuller.
1:47.0	The backbone of the American economy, merchant ships spent much of the 19th century twisting throughout the North American continent,
1:57.3	supplying and driving the push west, profoundly impacting the political and economic landscape of the country and its people,
2:04.8	who were looking to fulfill their dreams of gold, independence and upward mobility.
2:10.0	By the latter half of the century, the proliferation of steam ships helped to further advance
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