steamboat

The charge is a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter that was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters.

The classic cartoon stars the beloved mascot as the whistling, rascally pilot of a steamboat floating down a river.

A grand jury in 2020 initially indicted Boylan on 34 counts of a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as “seaman’s manslaughter” that was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters.

The famous Delta Queen steamboat that now plies the Mississippi was built in Stockton to move passengers and freight in California.

It would take the cavalry, alerted by telegraph and traveling by steamboat, just one day to travel that distance.