The Nation - News from Jan. 20, 1988
Two mutinous sailors were given consecutive life sentences for an attack aboard a shrimp boat that killed the captain and injured the first mate. Bill Gossett, 24, and William Rector, 21, were convicted in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Fla., in a rare mutiny trial, of the shipboard attack on Capt. Philip Roush, 28, about 26 miles off the Florida coast last July 29. First Mate Willie Charpentier, 21, was beaten but managed to escape.
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