The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-02-21 00:00:00

DIFFICULTIES ON SHIPBOARD.

Last Friday, before Dr. Drew, J. Landis, D. Co'lett,
sod W. Talbot, Esq.. Wes sailors from the 11111.d/est
ship Winifred. then it anchor of the Nabs Fort,
appeared. to order to complete of the second mate.
Jiimse Bennet, • tell, thin, Ifanceelooking men, wee
spokesman. sad stated that UN slop is of 1.011 tons and
belongs to Yermouth. Nova Bootie. She mum to Wm.
mouth reads on Wednesday last; but the men would not
go in her on socount of the 1114reetoseat by the ...flood
meta, who beat them around the deck, kicking end knock.
thaw down, licking them, end calling them foul names.
Had seen bias knack e man dowo, and be chased them
rAind the deck like doge. A man named 11.c.D maid, one
of them present, was knocked down on the Ste, and •
Gorman wee struck several times, while the carpenter,
who could not speak Zoglialt, had been beaten about tke
bead mid chest with a chain nod book, lost atm the
anchor wee hove at Flushing. The captain we. • witness
of the 111•toostment, but did not interfere.
IlanDonelld corroboratad, and said the mate knocked
him down bemuse be did oot '•fitr"
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Kr. Truk Scott was premed, and the
magistrates asked him to make • statement, whim he
produced his log, and proved that the three men present,
with seven others, were shipped at Antwerp on the Bth.
en 4 mote on board drunk sad disorderlyso that it was
difficulty the ship was serineted to Flushing Rondo.
Through stress of weather on the lfrth, the ship brought
up in Weymouth goads, amid the crew went below; but
on being turned up later the whole of the men who outs
aboard drunk refused to go on with their work, complete•
lag of lUtreatment by the second mate. The captain
offered to dimberge or prosecute ham. if it could be
proved he was guilty of suck conduct; but be bad not
sees any. Neat day the men ref used to run the windiest.
and he DOW charged them with wilful sad cautioned
disobedience. If the men went back. he would urns OTOIT
Obit to prevent the mate ill-nsine them.
As to the blow on MacDonald's eye, the captain said
I that when ordered to brace ills forayer& the man mane
out of the forecastle, west to the mate Is en insolent way,
and stared at him, whim the mate kcoalted him dowo.
This semad mate, who WM named Jenkina, WIIS ordered
to stand forward. He le • short, rather small, dark
man.

Dr. Drew cautioned him sod told him that for using bad
language and striking the crew, be would, U summoned
and convicted, be either fined Of sent to %Mean. The
magistrates, however, ordered the men to go scit to the
ship and behave themselves.
The men said they would rather go to prison, and they
were removed to the mils tiliner t day.
On Saturday before Dr. Drew. J. Milledge. ger., sad
J. B. Billiton, Isq., Jones Bennett, of New Brunswick,
was charged with will ally disobeying the orders of the
captain of the British ship Winifred, on the 17th.
rcein freak Soott, said the ship wee of Yarmouth,
Nova Bootle, end bound from Antwerp to Philadelphia.
Defendant came on board at Antwerp. as A.B. end signed
articles. On 7•brtterl fith he came en board drank and I
disorderly, se obi was helm towed out of dock. They
arrived in Weymouth amide on the morning of the 151 h,
and Om men went below about 2.30 am. but it p.m. '
when ordered to tern to, they refueled to work, Bennett ,
among them. Phelan(' ob}set we. to man the
windless,
toget the ablate a eater anaborage; but Bennett r
to work say mace on board the stip. The mesas be gave
was that the seated mate had ill-treated the other men,
sad be did not like to see my 111-treatment on boerd.
rampting pumping
_abip, he did no more work that day;
but Me ma& so UMW water that it was only a oomph-
meat tidies and it mempied only three minutes. On
the 10th be called the aft, end told thews he wanted to
room the skip toe tefer anchorage; but Bennett
be would do so more work, sod nothing was
ammo the ship was pummel out. On the 17th be
him aft, and ordered him to man the windlass, but he
adhered to his former determination. Lest night he wag
la Court, and on returning to the skip positively refused
to obey consmanda Wither saw Mos main' to the owe,
and allowed him tweo,r minutes, but health ref ned. and
witness ordered him into the boat to be lacked up.
Cinsidered that Bennett wag the ringleeder, after what
it=yesterday, end that last eig wa ht Sa
them not to work, and he had selected
Bennett to be prosecuted, believing he wm the nag.
leader. Crosa-eratnined : When he cameos board be wee
under the ing more of liquor. Witness most sertatnly sew
him intleenos the other own. Did not koow that he kept
his nightly look-out
Winnett said he wee no more in the am than any other
moo. Be Mutated disobeying this captain on the 151 h,
ltkla, and 17M.
Dr. Drew said this wee a most serious aims ; what
we. to become of the inercaotik twig. if obedience we,
not rendered to the captain t Iroplioit obedieoc• must
be rendered on bond ship, ant he war li.bis to 12 weeks'
hard labour. We. he prepared, if Vie captain would over.
look the asses, to return to duty I
Bennett sheolutely refused.
The mew had been on board nine days, gni hod £3 10s.
advance. . . .

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Twenty-sight dare bari labour.
Tbe oepta,n asked for what effect,e might he'vag to the
man to be handed over far the benefit or the .hip I ,
Th. hististrati said they could not do that ; if the
captain wished to send the clothes nab lfe, he tad totter
seed them to the Custom BOOM
Th. MIMI MOW a small dark-looking man, named
Freak_ .14dna was charged with assaulting Robert
/60 NUM WI February gib.
Complainant laid Frank Jenkins woe second mate on
hoard the Winfred. and on the Ito intent, pornpinnent
came on howl. lot Ss 'air soda bat not drools.
:d Del him on to troopes, end ef Leeward'
told him to rr Bs went w for an hour. and
that thill 11l ortl blot uq wain., followed him to the
flevoishiai sigh. would murder him If he went into
the f ,_followed
_ Aim and brc iuso complainant
did not km "Ble.to blm, itrock him with his Sat in the
eye, twice In Pie same place, giving the mark shown.
By Yr. Prdut : It wait. another; man that was struck
with a chola hook.
By Dr. Drew: Knew it weiLlosicame he did Rot see
"Sir," hogave tits mite said—"Jilr I You son A' s—odr r
By Yr. Arden: (lomplainept mad bad language some
Lima, tint pot to the cBoer orthe %big.
Crporoxentlnel by the mats, Ytist,told me not to drink
tIL'IIII wr...t and when lir down, after they
to. I neat en with the t. It was because I
Norliti not get 1111,11 MIX spirits that ordered me not to.
pinto the forectalla
Into Berger, • searnsn, corroborated, and stated that
mate .44—" pr gm you wen a --.-, sir me.'.
id /Ike delendent said den tulle an board sod hit told
hi to go Wow. jtot to drl Imuy more whiskey.
Ds we, Olaf to • sensor a and the comedian-
No sates on lie red him hick, sod nut
him on ass afistirards . sae till drinking
*Ms alial. he strtt end in tbe esOteenent
be might have Idol
The Captill Ind he saw"Eintn refuse fiir times t o
Poll the forebono, sad it Me in a Tory insulting intoner,
Mend Ille. the maristratsi AWN him he had no right
to take the law in his swii wag
Mather man ease forward, and said the mond mats
struck him with. belaying pin; but h• had not taken out
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magistrates ordered them all on board to their
d • tit_ this mew tat that he had a cmplaint
._..„...461Mt0 the noon& mate.
• 0..... triwittetwitad to come on
shone sod make a (de or are s st
The espial. said he them all Scold ILA so on
:4E; int they were to depute those we MY befell of Al
mairistrstes eskl the Gaeta& 7,16":11:4116" to
use his iallassur that the oasis of the tom let should
not be repeated. sad they meet Ago on Alta Phip.
vital AJo or Chimes led Wed forward Mid made a
• wind the captain that he throattned I,
• roastoto tbrow him overboard.
said ho we. cover more surprised in big ilfs
tire, to see llie.odek one htewsrd
_get up and mike the
starement The cook tted nat.:lite Sad trehing to do viltit
tteletemplahlir,ikat kale. nothing aboatilf : but diaas than •
he bad laid be waled to soU Animas% an *WA a eel
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