Related to the article, "Mad Pirate Terror Reign on Yacht Told, Harrowed Survivors Recount Killing of Faulding and Morgan. Mutinous murder and a piratical five-day reign of terror on the high seas aboard the blood-soaked pleasure schooner Aafje were disclosed by harrowed survivors," Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1938. the artivle states: "…stories of the death of Dwight L. Faulding, Santa Barbara hotel man and owner of the craft, shot by Jack Morgan, crazed houseboy and seaman. Morgan was later clubbed to death by two deckhands and his body thrown to the sharks … formal murder charges were filed against Robert Horne and George Spernak, young deckhands … These charges, authories unofficially admitted, are intended as a legal formality..."
Gertrude Turner, in light dress, and Dwight Faulding, in open shirt and jacket, both standing on flagstone path in formal garden, with arbor of pillars and brick arches in background
Related to Los Angeles Times article, January 2, 1938, Yacht Pair Face Charge, Mad Pirate’s Crew Members to Be Arraigned Tomorrow. The closing chapters of the mad piracy voyage of the yacht Aafje which cost the life of Dwight L. Faulding, Santa Barbara hotel man, in a murder by Jack Morgan, later slain by members of his crew, are scheduled to be written next week in Federal court. … [Robert] Horne and [George] Spernak threw Morgan to the sharks as a defense measure to save their own lives and those of three women and a child aboard the ill-fated schooner. …
![Murder victim Dwight Faulding on beach, [1937?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002d9kc0/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Murder victim Dwight Faulding and fiancee Gertrude Turner, [1937?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002d9kbg/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Gertrude Turner and another woman on yacht Aafje, [1937?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002d9k9z/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)