The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-09 00:00:00

ROYAL MOVEMENTS.

The Empress of Germany with the Queen, and
Princess Beatrice and suite left Windsor shortly before
11 to-day on a visit to the German Hospital, and
arrived in London at 11.35.

THE TRIAL OF THE LENNIE MUTINEERS.
The trial of the Lennie mutineers has ended in the
conviction of four men of wilful murder, the discharge of
two, and a verdict of not guilty in the cam of two others.
The story of the crime is, perhaps, as terrible as was ever
told in a court of justice Lest October the Lennie, a
venal from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was lying at Antwerp,
unable to return to the other side of the Atlantic for
want of a crew. Mr. Stanley Hatfield was captain, and
Mr. Joseph Wortley mate, and Mr. Richard MacDonald
second officer, and they sent an agent to London t• engage
a crew. Eleven men were found, and sent over to
Antwerp, and among them were the eight prisoners. It
was a most promiscuous haul. Mattro Gargalli was •
Greek, and his nickname on board ship was " French
Peter;" Giovanni Gacaris was a Turk, familiarly called
'Joe the Cook ;" Paroscos Lecais was a Greek, and went
by the name of " Nicholas ;" Pascales Caludis was a Turk.
and his alias was "Big Harry;'
r. George Kaida. another
Turk, was known as " Lips : and George"' Angelo., also
• Turk, was celled "Little George." There were also
George Green, • Greek, who could speak English fluently,
and was known as "Joe the "Boatswain," and Charles
Renken, an Englishman. The steward, Constant von
Heydotick, and the understeward were Belgians. The
captain never seems to have trusted his crew. The
officer' lived apart from the men, and thought it needful
to be armed with revolvenk and the captain slept with a
couple ready loaded under his pillow. They sailed for New
Orleans on the 25th of October, and sE went well till the
31st. At four o'clock in the morning of that day just as
the watch was changing, the order was given to put out
the ship about, the wind haring shifted ; and the watch
lust coming on duty was to mist in the operation. The
captain spoke sharply, perhaps even with some violence.
He had left his revolvers in cabin under his pillow, or,
as Mr. Justice Brett said, he would have been master of
the situation, and the case would not bare been heard of.
As he was unarmed, one of the sailors, probably Big
Harry, struck him and knocked him down, and be or
another stabbed him in the neck. The steward below
heard the noise, exclaimed that the captain's throat was
being cut, and seat up the under-steward to see. The boy
could not get up, as Nicholas had just fastened the cabin'
door by a rope. The second mate rushed to the 's
assistance and was stabbed by Big Harry. The flrst mate
was, meanwhile, in the rigging, and Joe the Cook tired
at him, but missed. Lips then took the revolver, and
and brought down his victim, who was finished by French
Pettis knife, These three murders made the conspirators
masters of the vessel, and they saved the steward's life
because he alone could navigate the vesseL He acted, as
the Judge said with extraordinary art and intelligence.
They wanted him to sail for Gibraltar, and thence towards
Greece, and be assented, but kept the vessel's head for the
Bristol Channel, meanwhile throwing over bottles with
messages asking for help. Finding the mutineers
becoming suspicious, he headed for the French coast, and
when they saw the land, six of them resolved to leave the
ship. On going ashore they told a story which roused
susMelons, and were arrested: the ship was pursued,
and the remaining prisoners brought to England.
In paring sentence Mr Justice Brett said :—You four
men have been found guilty of mutiny. Mutiny on board
a ship almost inevitably leads to murder. Mutiny in this
cam has led to a series of ghastly murders. Mutiny by
itself is to my mind one of the most serious of crimes,
bemuse it leads to murder. You have all been found
guilty of mutiny and murder. The jury, taking the most
merciful view that could be, have absolved a subordinate
officer of the ship and another man from the crime of
murder. I perfume the jury were unwilling to convict
them because their hand had not been actually imbrued
In blood ; but the jury hat% come to the conclusion that
each of n four men did imbrue your hands in the blood
of three t men. You were the cause of their death.
By the law of this country it is clear that you must die.
Do not deceive yourselves ; there is no hope for you. You
must, therefore, prepare to die The sentence which I
am to mason ash of you is hat Yen Latakia each of you
hence to the place from whence you cause, and from thence
to • lawful pleas of execution, sad that on be hung till
you are dead, and that your bodies be buried
within the precincts of the prison in which you have been
last confined after your conviction. And may God have
mercy upon your souls.! The Judge then directed Con-
stant von Heydone to stand forward and, addressing him
said—l am of opinion that you, being put into • position
d as great a diaculty and danger as any man well could
be, and having cast upon you a meat responsibility, acted
with almiraNe courage and with extreme dexterity, and
slld fortitude and dex
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terity
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on of these wicked men.
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life your undertook to defend the defenceless by who was
left alone, and I most say that in nu °Pinio°. idtting here
so the relomentative of the law. I consider that every
honour to due to you. (Applause. which wee immediately
wammiseed, neve the power, and therefore I mean to
exercise It, to order that a money reward be paid to you,
and I do net think that under the almost umquaDed cir-
cumstances ef this ease that reward ought to be a small
one. Of course net dealing with my own rownrf.l have
no
right to make it more than a recognition of what I
oansiftr your servies„ and I direct therefore, that a
reward of Sfit be paid to eon for your hooonrable and
courageous conduct in this matter. (fienessi
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Faasergit Ts, AND Mimeo. --On Friday evening
the Primitive Methodist friends had a tea and
meeting to say farewell to Mr. J. Wooldridge, the
Evangelist who has been labouring here for the past
fortnight They are but a small Church at present,
but they have a few warm-hearted friends, and well-
wisher'. The handsome little Chapel which has
bee, erected at the bottom of Durngate-street bee
been the scene of much good work during the short
time of Mr. Weoldridgee stay. Large number* of
persons have flocked to hear him, and the out-door
services have been more numerously attended than
the in-door. The preacher had a fine powerful voice,
and could make himself heard at a great distance,
whilst his sing &bifidas attracted many, who after.
wards followad lifin to the Chapel. His work in the
town has been blessed by God, and several have been
added to the Church. He avoided as much as
possible the excitement too often apparent at such
gatherings, and there was no attempt on his part to
force sinners to come out and make a profession of
faith So that, as he often remarked, if they mani-
fested a desks to teed holy lives it was clearly the
work of the Holy Spirit prompting. He was earnest
in his entreaties, and faithfully proclaimed "the
whole Counsel of God." Whilst he told sinners that
God loved them and " willed that they should holy
be," he solemnly pointed out the tenors of the latter
day, making many a heart shudder as he depicted the
titter terror and dismay of the last in "the grut day
of His wrath." So earnest was he in the work of the
great Head of the Church that he proved himself a
thorough of God, living that which he preached., in covereation and in his company could
not fail to be "built up—lndeed, many were the
expressions of thankfulness at the meeting for his
visit from those who have long been connected with
Christian Churches. The proceedings on Friday
commenced with a public tea, to which a goodly
number sat down, after which a short open-air
service was held, and then there was public meeting
in the ChapeL Mr. Geo. Franklin presidedon the
«rano& and briefly opened the proceedings, after which
Mr. E. Penny and Mr. H. Foot addressed the meeting,
various revival hymns being sung at intervals.
The Evangelist then spoke for nearly an hour.
He began by depicting the horrible state in
which he was found by Christ, his utterly forlorn,
wretched, ruined, shaken condition, how he heard the
Primitive Methodists holding a camp meeting, bow he
was induced to listen to a preacher, bow a
friend took him by the hand, and how he was led to
Calvary, and his beams were kept in silence, whilst
he related the hard struggle he had to give up his old
mode of life. He told of the work which he had been
enabled to accomplish since his conversion, by the help
of God's grace, and be concluded a stirring and impres-
sive address by imploring thou who had not done so
to come out that evening and determine to be on the
Lord's side. He declared there was no happiness in
the world without religion, and hereafter a raid remain-
ed for them in glory. After this Mr. N. Lee briefly
addressed the meeting and proposed a vote of thanks
to the Chairman for hie kindness in coating amongst
them, which was seconded by Mr. W. GaiLingend
acknowledvd, the Chairman concluding by
Mr. Wooldridge a hearty farewell on behalf of thou
with whom be had been laboming, and wishing him
God vud in his work. This was acknowledged by
Mr. Wooldridge and thus terminated one of the most
Pleasant and probtable series of services yet held in
oonsiendes with the Primitive Methodists Society in
this town. Mr. Wooldridge has fe" for a week's
labour at Snstthlairv, where ite NY been work
previously, after ch he returns to his home,int
Cenatroad, Mile-end, Loudon, where he !
during the summer in a tent which I
be has purchased, end where friends may communicate
with —Commanicetrat
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