The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01 00:00:00

THE " LENNIE."

At the Bow-street Police-court, in London, on
Friday, the prisoners Cad ails, Cascaris, Leonsis,
Calndie, Kaida, Roriken, Green, Petersen, Angelos,
and Moroi were again brought before Sir Thomas
Henry, for further examination on the charges of
murder and mutiny on the Lennie.—The following.
report of the proceedings is from Saturday's Times:— .
Mr. Poland prosecuted, at the instance of the Treasury;
Mr. S. Woolf defended the Greeks; Mr. T. Beard appatred
for the Tusks. Mr. Cartwright interpreted in Greek and
Italian, and Mr. Eaglestrom in Danish. It was finally settled •
that Caludis was a Turk, and was therefcre to be defended
by Mr. Beard.
Mr. Poland said that since the last examination it had been
considered necessary to ask for the discharge of Petersen, the.
Dane, in order that he might be called as a witness. The
late prisoner Lettis, who was examined on the last occasion,
had only seen part of the occurrence.
Petersen was then discharged, with the sanction of Sir
Thomas Henry, and remained in the gaoler's room until the
completion of the evidence of Guiseppe Lettis, who was at
once recalled. He said he wished to make a correction in
his evidence. On the last occasion he said the bodies of the
captain and mate had been thrown overboard before Reuken
and Petersen came out of the coal-bunk. In point of fact,
the bodies were thrown over after Itenken and Petersen
came out. The chief mate at the time was lying in the
middle of the foreyard, still alive. The other bodies were
lying, one on the poop and the other aft.

Cross-examined by Mr. Woolf, witness said.—The ship's
articles were signed at Antwerp on shore. I made two
statements in France, one three days after I was captured.
I saw the captain kick Kaida once. I had seen the mate fire
off pistols. I don't know why it was done. I was not told it
was done to frighten the men. The captain did not fire
pistols, but be was always swearing I did not hear him say
" You are a lot of soldiers, not tailors." After calling the
men names the captain was immediately stabbed. The
second mate was then on the bridge. Nicholas was nct with
him. The first mate was far away forward. The second
mate came down from the bridge and took the place of the
captain directly he was stabbed. rhe captain ran round the
poop after being struck. The mate was struck directly after-
Wards. I went on to the main deck from the main braces to
see what the men were•doing. I could not do anything to
prevent the captain being killed. I bad no arms, and was
frightened to interfere. I looked on while the captain and mate
were being killed. I returned to the poop before the first mate
was killed; the captain was in the same place as I had left
him. I stopped near the second mate, who was on the main
deck, and who was there killed outright. Nicholas (Loomis)
did not go forward, as he stopped to fasten the cabin door
with a rope. This was done after tho captain and second
mate had been struck. The coalhole to which Renken and
Petersen went was right forward. Little George struck no
one. I did not see Leousis strike any one, and Moros was in
his bunk. I had not been told the captain had given the
boatswain the pistols and knuckleduster to keep the men in
order. I remember the French pilot coming alongside. The
steward spoke to the pilot. I could not understand what
the men who were leaving the boat said, as they spoke in
Greek. I saw them take the provisions. I did not refuse to
put the boat out. No one taught me the Greek word for
knife ; I learnt it myself.

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By Mr. Beard: I did not hear any one tell Saida to fire
at the mate. He was very close to the mate, and hit him
twice There waa no director of the mutiny—they were all
concerned.

Mr. Beaid : But you said said some of them did no more
than you did?

Witness: I mean the first five prisoners were all con-
cerned. They said they intended to kill the remaining
seven.
'

The evidence having been interpreted, the prisoners were
asked if they wished to ask the witness any questions.
Renken and Green said they wished to ask no questions.
as all the witnesses had said in evidence was perfectly true.
Renken said the place where the witness alleged the articles
were signed was incorrect,. but
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Sir Thomas Henry said that was a matter of no Import-
ance.

Re-examined by Mr. Poland : The watch and chain found
on French Peter were never in my hands. He did not wear
the chain when he was at work. I saw the chain at London
before we started, and afterwards on his cheit on beard the
Lennie. I think there was a small locket on it. When I
first saw the chief mate he was on the foreyard, and at that
time Kaida was on the main deck. At that time the revolver
was in the hands of Joe, the cook. He gave it to Kaida, who
went up the fore-rigging and fired it at the first mate. I can
not say if Nicholas helped ti throw the boelies overboard.
Chevalier Charles de Schemer, the Austrian, spoke to me at
the police-court here.

Mr. J. W. Humphrys, the Chief Clerk, here read over the
depositions, and they were interpreted in Greek by Mr.
Cartwright. The witness answered the more difficult ques-
tions in Italian as they were interpreted by Mr. Cartwright.
Peter Petersen was then called and examined by Mr.
Poland. He said, in English—l am 26 years of age and am a
Dane. In Octooer last I was in London, and was asked to join
the ship called the Lennie. I was paid in advance a month's
wages, and went with the rest of the crew to Antwerp. There
were eleven of us in all. I knew Renken before ;he had been
a shipmate of mine before in a Norwegian vesseL I signed
the ship's articles produced. I went on board the Lennie at
Antwerp as able seaman. We left London on Sunday, the
23rd of October. I was •in the second mate's watch. All
went well for some days I remember being in the watch
from twelve to four on the 31st of October; that was the
first mate's watch. My watch was called up at half-past
three ; that was the second mate's watch. We were called to
put the ship about. The captain went on deck too. The chief
mate was then on deck on his watch. Johnny Moore was in
his bunk. All the other men were there, except the steward
and the boy. When I got on board, the boatswain (Green)
teld me to go forward to the fore-shects along with
Charles Renken, who was on the look out. The chief mate
was forward. While I was forward I heard the
captain call out, " Hard-a-lee." The ship ought to have
gone round, but no men were working at the braces. The
first mate said, "By God, Peter, what's the matter?" I said,
" I don't know, Sir." He then called the boatswain, and he
said he did not know what was the matter. The captain then
told Green to go aft and see what was the matter. He came
forward and said, "some murder was aft." Cl'een said no
more, except that everybody would have to look out for him-
self. I could not see or hear what was going on aft. The
chief mate went up the fore-rigging on the port side. Cacaris,
the cook, came forward with a revolver in his hand and shot
at the mate three or four times, and said, "Greek ! ' threes
times, saying it as he shot at the mate. The cook was stand-
ing on the deck at the time. The chief mate then went
further up the rigging. I could not see if the shots hit him,
Renken and I went into the coal-hole then, as we were frigh-
tened. Cacarls said in English, "Don't you be frightened."
I did not see any one go up the rigging before I went into
cabin. I heard no shots fire while we were there. We
were called up by the boatswain. We did not answer at
first. When we went up the chief mate was up the fore-
rigging. The boatswain and Caludis were standing amid-
ships. The latter wanted to get the carpenter's shop door
open. He told Renken to go aft and take the wheel,
and asked me to bring him a marlinspike. I took him one,
I saw him break open the carpenter's shop door. I saw him
take a pump out which was used to wash the deck. The
boatswain and Little George were present when I fetched
the marlinspike. Little Johnny Moore was standing inside
the forecastle door. I did not use the marlinspike myself.
The boatswain then told me to go forward and keep a good
look out. The chief mate was then still up at the top
of the foreyard. One of the crew went up the rigging. I
could not see who it was, because it was dark I heard
afterwards from Little George that the man who went up
was Raids. I heard him shooting. There were two shots. I
heard the mate call out "Ho, ho!" ano then be came down.
Just after he came down I saw him lying over the top of the
rail at the side of the ship. One of the men hauled him down
on deck. I could not see who it was, but I heard Little
George say it was Caludis. I was on the look-out at hale.
past seven o'clock in the fore part of the ship, and Little
George came to relieve me. He said, "Take a smoke and
go down and get your coffee." I did not see anything
of the second mate's body. I saw Caludis, Cargabs, and
Leonsis amidships washing the deck. There was blood on
the poop. Caludis told me to go down into the cabin, and
get my coffee. I went into the cabin. I saw nothing of
the chief mate's body. The boy Tronssilot was down stairs.
Charley Renken came down and had his coffee. The boat-
swain told me that Caludis and Cargalis had gone down
before to ask the steward to take the ship to Gibraltar.
When I went up after taking my coffee Caludis and the
others had not quite finished washing the deck. He asked
me to help him, which I did. The ship Lennie had her
name on the quarter on a small piece of wood. I saw the
cook and Kaida break off-the piece of wood with an axe and
chisel. I heard Big Harry say to the boatswain, "Take the
names off the boats." I could not understand all they said.
I saw the boatswain break the names off two of the little
boats. There were four boats altogether. I saw French
Peter take a paint-pot all, and saw him and the cook
paint the name off the stern. The boatswain told Renken
to go aft and hold the paint-pot for him. After the
painting out had been done we all had our breakfast except
the Austrian, Lettes, who was at the wheel The steward
had charge of the ship. I relieved the Austrian at the
wheel I took none of the officers' things out of the cabin.
The boatswain on the Thursday asked me to take charge of
the ship, but I said I could not. He asked one of the men,
but came back to me and said, "You must take charge of the
ship—the men say you must." I then agreed to take charge
of the ship. I have been thirteen years at sea. I said I
would take the ship as well as I could, and I was told by
Caludis to use the second mate's room. Caludis told me
to take the ship to Gibraltar and I would be all right.
Calndia said this through the boatswain. I tried to steer
the ship to land south by east. The boatswain came to
me and said, "The men want to see the land." I said, "All
right, and I kept her to east. We saw land on Saturday at
about half-past two in the afternoon. The first five pri-
soners said, "Oh, there is Gibraltar; we are all right.' I
let the ship run in between the lighthouses, It was not
Gibraltar. Ido not know what place it was. French Peter
found out that it was not Gibraltar, and told me to put the
helm round, as he wanted to get out again. I put the helm
round and he went to the other side. The men said, "Put
the helm round ;" but I took the helm up and the ship did
not go round. French Pater took the wheel from me and
said in French, " Dan% you speak too much, or I will speak
to you by and by." 1 told the boatswain to tell the men
to let the boat go in. He spoke to the men, and it was then
that French Peter took the wheel from me. The steward
afterwards took charge of the vessel role took her ra little
further in. The steward anchored her. That was
Saturday night. While at anchor that night a pilot-boat
came out. French Peter spoke to the pilot, who asked if
a pilot was wanted. The pilot came out again the
next day with a small paper. The next day I saw
Nicholas try to get the shackle off the anchor. The next
day Big Harry and French Peter talked about leaving
the boat, and asked me if I wanted to go. The steward
Renken, the boatswain, and myself intended to go on shore
as soon as we could get the chance, French Peter, Joe
the cook, Caludis, Nicho'as, and Lips were always looking
after us. Caludis asked me why I did not go in the boat,
and I said I had nothing to leave the ship for. On Monday
night the five prisoners above named and little George
AT gelos went into the boat. They took a bag, but I did not
see what it contained. I saw them take ties and provisions,
and they were dressed in some oilskins. I heard the men
talking about leaving the boat, but the wind was blowing
too hard. The boatswain said. "I am afraid those men
Wall come back, as the wind has gone wrong" They did
not come back. The boatswain went forward, and told
Renken and myself to get the boat out for the steward
logo ashore and report the ship. We said we did not
think we could sail ashore, as the wind was so strong
Then we saw a steamboat—a French man-of-war—coming,
and we got the boat out. Renken, Moros, the steward, and
I went in it to the French man-of-war. That same day I was
taken into custody by the French officers, I was searched,
having on me a pocket-knife and a small key. I was put in
irons at first and taken to prison. On the night when the
matter occurred the second mate went to the boatswain,
and, throwing his arm round his neck, said, "You have
saved my life. " The boatswain said, "No, I can't save your
life; go down the main hatch." I heard no cries on
board. I had seen Joe, the cook, with the pistol before the
mutiny.
This concluded the evidence in chief of Petersen, and Sir
Thomas Henry said that he should now adjourn the case.
Mr. Poland said he was sorry that he had not been able
sufficiently to complete the case to enable it to be tried at
the April Sessions, for the examinations had been much
longer than he anticipated. Last week, in consequence of
certain information which had reached the prosecution, it
had been deemei necessary to send the steward and Chief
Superintendent Williamson to France. The steward had
returned, but Superintendent Williamson had thought it
right to make same further inquiries. He could not get
back till the middle of next week, so it would be useless to
adjourn the case for an earlier date than Monday week, sir
Thomas Henry, having agreed to this proposal, Mr. Poland
further suggested that the case should be adjourned until the
next day for the purpose of completing the evidence of the
last witness.

Sir Thomas Henry gave his consent to this course, and the
prisoners were removed.

On Saturday, the prisoners Carj ails, Cascaris, Leousis,
Calndio, Kaida, Renken, Moros, Angelos' and Canessa
were again brought up for further examination before Sir
Thomas Henry, on the charges of mutiny and murder.
—The following account of the proceedings is from
Monday's Times :
Mr. Poland attended for the prosecution on behalf of the
Crown; Mr. Sidney Woolf defended the Greeks, and Mr.
Beard appeared for the Turks. The prisoner Angelos, who
7144 Ent statod to be a Turk, and rho was subsequently

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RAILWAY MEMS.— The very quickest train by
which you can travel—a train of thought. This beats
the Flying Scotchman, or the Wild Irishman, out and
out.—Judy.
A CENTENARIAN.— Mr. Arthur T. Fawcett
writes to us (The Timm) from Et oscrea, county Tipperary:
—" In this town there died some days ago a woman
aged 108 years. This statement is confirmed by an
entry in the parish books."
WAR AND 'PEACE !—Two officers who were
friends, but had not met for some time, volunteered,
each unknown to the other, for the Ashantee War.
To their mutual surprise they stumbled across one
another at Cape Coast Castle, whereupon the follow-
ing dialogue ensued :—A. " Holloar'Wh y, 8., who
on earth would ever have thouOt of wilting you here.
You don't mean to say you ve volia,..eted?" B.:
"Well, yew, - I have.- You see I- halus_no_wife_and
family, and I like war. But what in the name of
wonder brings you here." : "Weal . you see I
have a wife and family, and I like—peaCe 1 "=-Pictot:ial
World. _

HEALTH or Soorzero.,-Ahlk,r4ontlily-retuni
for the eight principal towns og Scotlaria shows that
the deaths registered in Febrnary'vreie2;642, being 148
under the February average, corrected for increase of
population. Whooping cough continued the most fatal
of the epidemics, and was still on the increase, the
deaths being 166, or 63 per cent, of the whole mortality.
This disease appeared to be most prevalent in Aberdeen.
Paisley, and Glasgow. Scarlatina caused 86 deaths,
of which 34 occurred in Edinburgh and nine in Greenock.
Measles caused 78 deaths, 25 of them in Edinburgh and
nine in Leith. Fever caused 68 deaths in Greenock,
eight from typhus, and three from enteric fever. Of
the whole mortality 36 per cent, was caused by con-
sumption and inflammatory affections of the respiratory
organs. The month showed a low temperature and
much moisture and rain. The rainfall ranged from
320 inches at Dundee to 5'83 inches at Glasgow.

"HE SANG !"—They have some queer girls
over in Colorado. One of them who resides in the
Cache la Poudre Valley, had been receiving the atten-
tions of a young man for abnut a year, but becoming
impatient at his failure to bring matters to a crisis, she
resolved to ascertain his intentions. When he next
called she took him gently by the ear, led him to a
seat, and said: " Nobby, you've been foolin' round
this claim fur mighty near a year, an' hey never yet
shot off your mouth on the matryin' biz. I've cottened
to yer on the square clean through, an' hey stood off
every other galloot that has tried ter chip in; an' now
I want yer to come down to bizness or leave the ranche.
Ef yer on the marry, an' want a pard that'll stick rite
to ye till yer pass in yer checks an' the good Lord
calls ye over the range, just squeal out and we'll hitch,
but ef that an't yer game, draw an' give some other
fellow a show fur his pile. Now, sing yer song or skip
out." He sans.

TicKLlan TimEa.—A timid young man was
visiting a beautiful young woman the other evening,
when, after a pause, she said, looking at him closely,
." Now I want to propose to you." "You are very
!kind," said the diffident young man, between gasps
and blushes, "but I am not worthy of such happiness
—and, in fact, none of our family are marrying people,
—besides, my income is limited." "No, not that,'
said the young woman, "I wanted to propose to you
to get up a Spelling Bee in our village schoolroom."
THE YOUNG LADY AND THE PARROT.—TO
.make a purchase a rather dignified young lady lately
entered a florist's, when she was accosted as follows
by a shrill voice resembling that of an old woman (says
the Liverpool Albion) :—" Shut the door! Don't you
know any better? It's cold outside ! " Very much
overcome with mortification and embarrassment, she
looked about for the speaker, saying, "Excuse me,
but the wind blew so I could hardly close the door."
"Well mind your eye, miss, and don't dolt again!"
pursued the voice, when to her great astonishment
and amusement the young lady found that she had
been conversing viith a parrot. Annoyed at the bird
for deceiving her so, the young lady turned her back
to the cage, and was intent upon examining some
flowers. Suddenly the same voice, or what seemed to
be, said to her, "What can Ido for you, miss?" "If
you hold your tongue, I shall be gratified above all
things," replied the young lady, turning round as she
spoke, and discovering the shopwoman."
FROzEN TO DEATH.—Land and Water says
that on Friday week last a gamekeeper named Archibald
Colquhoun, for 20 years in the employ of the Colquhottn
of Luss family, was found in his boat frozen to his
seat and quite dead on Loch Lomond. He was one of
the keepers on Inchlonaig, the identical island on
returning to which from deer-shooting Sir James
Colquhoun and his keepers were drowned, in December,
, 1873. Colquhoun had been across to Lusa for provisions,
. and left for the island in a small boat at six o'clock in
the evening. Not putting in an appearance on the
island, a search was instituted on the following day,
and resulted in the boat being discovered, half full of
water, with the poor fellow seated in the stern, dead,
surrounded by ice, which had to be broken to extricate
him. The boat was found far out of its course, and
' drifting on the shore of Inchcounachan.

NEw WORDS.—It is scarcely fair on the part
of the country which invented spelling bees to intro-
duce from time to time new words of doubtful ortho•
graphy—to leave etymologar_out of the question (says
the Pall Mall Gazette). "Writist," for a professor of
handwriting; " drinkist," for a cultivated amateur of
intoxicating liquors; "defaticator," for a skimming
machine, need not baffle any speller who has once
seized the meaning of the words. But " centncctial"
might puzzle the most accomplished speller, or spellist,
unless he had seen the word, where it may now be con-
stantly met with, in American theatrical advertise-
ments. Any one who sees the new term in writing or
in print, and in connection with the theatre, will at
once understand that it is intended to denote the
hundredth night of a dramatic representation. When
a piece has run ninety-nine nights its " centnoctial"
celebrated, and the public, paving in paper, receive
change either in silver or in god.
A MOST NOTICEABLE MAN.—The Baron de
Leseeps, though seventy years old, is still young, and
contemplates grand designs (says the Pictorial World).
With black eyebrows and moustache, but white beard,
he is a most noticeable man, and those who do not
know him take him to be a sergeant in the Garde&
He brings his children up in the most Spartan—or
shall we say Egyptian ?—way. They go about bare-
footed, and, although Madame only half likes this, he is
able to boast that their young ones, of whom they
have a small regiment, are never ill. His house is full
of gifts from great persons. There is a gold cup
given by the Empress worth 40,000 dollars. All the
sovereigns present or represented at the opening of
the Canal sent him ribbons, making him one of the
most decorated men in Europe. He now desires to
make a railway through the Euphrates Valley. He
says: "I do not care for riches, and I have no wants.
All I wish is that my children may grow up and
prosper. I satisfy myself with the hope that they
will get on in life, proud of their father, and happy to
continue his work, which is that of humanity and
civilisation."
RATHER. AWKWARD TO PLEASE EVERT ONE.-
A Philadelphia paper says —Every civilised nation of the
world will take part in the centennial exposition. The
commission have determined to dose it on the Sabbath
—that is on Sunday, the Sabbath of the Christians. If
they close it on the Sabbath of every nation repre-
sented there—and why should the nations be shocked
in their moral sense by a failure to do so ?—it will
always be closed. For the Greeks they will close it on
nday ; for the Persians on Tuesday; for the
Assyrians on Wednesday ; for the Egyptians on Thurs-
day; for the Turks, the Arabs, and all Mohammedan
nations on Friday; for the Jews and Seventh-day
Baptists on Saturday; and for Christians they will
close it on Sunday.
AN HISTORIC TREE GONE.—The Paris Corre-
spondent of the Daily Telegraph writes :

The traveller visiting the village of Lens, in Hainanlt.
Belgium, has always had pointed out to him an old linden
tree, on the plain where the great Conde won the famout
battle of the 20th of August, 1643. It was said that it wal
from the foot of this tree that Conde watched the movements
of the enemy and directed his troops A marble column well
known to tourists was erected clone to it, bearing an inscrip-
tibn by Boileau beginning, "It was here, great Conde, that
thy arm made the Rhine, the Escault, and the Ebro tremble."
The historical linden is now no more •, it lies prostrate by the
side of the marble column, torn up by the late tempest that
passed over the country. An iron railing has been erected
around its remains to protect them from the hands of the too
curious crowd. ,
MR. SPURGEON AND HIS CONGREGATION.--
At the morning service at the Tabernacle on Sunday,
Mr. Spurgeon said the seatholders would observe that
the tickets of the new quarter had a notice printed on
them that they were not available for a certain even-
ing. The reason of Cris was that he was determined to
have one service of his own every quarter for the future.
That ono service would be for those who were not in
the habit of attending at the Tabernacle, and he hoped
all the seatholdera would stay away from it. Let them
on that ocCasion go elsewhere, alai if they got more
good at any other plasm let them continue to go to it.
As there were some persons who would grumble at any
'mortal Alaing, he had bad the notification priuted on
the ticket, so that the seatholders might see that it was
in the contract, and when they paid their money might
know what was what. —Daily News.
A SCLENTIFIC PROPOSAL —The following (says
the Pictorial World) is said to have been the way a
certain diainguished scientist proposed to the lady
who is now his tvife:l—"SaiTharine conglomeration of
protoplasm! Adorable combination of matter and
force ! Rarest productof infinite ages of evolution!
The luminferoup. ether is not more responsive to the
rays of Ii ht•than iireqn3i nelve: centres to the mystic
influence which emanates from the photosphere of thy
countenance. As the hehocentric system was evolved
from primordial chaos by the workings of inexorable
law' so is that rarefication of matter which" men call
my soul lifted from profound despair by the luminance
issuing from thy visual organs. Deign, 0 admirable
- creature, to respect that attraction which draws me
towards thee with a force inversely proportioned to the
114qt:tares of the distance. Grant that we shall be made
double suns describing concentric orbits, which shall
touch each other at all points of their peripheries r
LADIES IN THE LOBBY OF CONORESS.—Not
yet able to make their way into Congress, a certain
number of American ladies have already penetrated to
the lobbies of the House of Representatives.—" The
most agreeable class of people hereabouts," (writes the
Washington correspondent of a New York paper,)
"are the female lobbyists, of whom there must be
thirty or more." Some of these want patents ex-
tended; others have war claims, and "not a few urge
the enactment of private bills." The correspondent
divides the female lobbyists into those who are hand-
some and those who possess literary pretensions. It is
sad to think that personal beauty and claims to mental
superiority are—in the case of female lobbyists—so
seldom found united. It is satisfactory, however' to
know that thee ladies for the most part possess tact,
that sott.e of them may r oast of possessing practical
common sense, and that "nearly all" pay great regard
to the conventionalities of euciety. One would have
thought that lobbying on the part of ladies was itself
somewhat out of harmony with "the conventionalities
of society." But the correspondent seems to be of
opinion that ladies in the lobby are the right women in
the right place. It apprars that the female lobbyiatS
propose to take a band in the coming Presidential elec-
tion; and we are assured that'" in no age or country,
from the days of Louis XIV. and the Court of Spain,
as described by Gil Bias, has female influence been
more potent than it is here just now."