The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-12-23 00:00:00

COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS.

TTINIDAT Arl2llllooll.
Before R. if. ESA Eaq., Major Swig Sold, sad Captain
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SEAMEN SENT TO GOAL FOR REFUSING

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—ormenekbleamon. Jobs Nilsson 0•Olkr Lindholm
PerlAelsons, August Johanson, and 0. W. Johaegeon,
were charged that they Wag mimeo on
board 6 ship celled the Igalse Malcolm, did
nine to work on board the said ship at Portland
on the 11th of December. Mr. Howard prosecuted,
and stated that if the prisoners would return to the
ship they were willies to taus them beck. but the
offer was almost immediately withdrawn, and the case
opesel. Mr. Howard said It was • very bad owe,
end not one calling (many sympathy. The vowel was
• Ilse barque of 700 ton, end the captain was a very
efflcieet oiler. AU the reel of the crew weer willing
to ocattnue the voyage, sad be asked the Bench to
inflict upon the prlsosea the DeVereet pa:gatemen
pereiblk
Oise of the prisoners being • Norwegian, and the
rest natives of Swedes, the evideeos had to be inter-
preted to them by • Norwegian, named Sveadeden.
Captain Eamon Thomas Richards mid be bad been
In ewes of the neon eines 1880. All the printers
were esernso on board, and signed an eseement to
mil Interne Middlesborough and the River Piet*.
He gave hie orders le English, and the prisoner.
understood them The barque was deed A 1 at
Lloyd's. He had put Into Portland to rest, ea they
bad been out in some very rough weather, and on the
11th of December the penmen oame to him and em-
planed of being auk He ordered them to work, so
that be might have time to pesecelbe for them. They
refund to de so, eying them were too few band. on
booed, too much work to be done, and the' the Alp
was neg. to the 'muse, be 101,11 some ,r.l.sre, bat
the pekoes rs smoked their pipes, and refused to carry
out Ma leetrootione. The vessel want aground on the
27tb of November betenn the Race Beek and the
Doges Lighthouse, off the Norfolk net, the whole
operation not occupying five minutes, ha prisoner.
spoke to him about it in the Downs, and eked bins
If be wen going to put into Poetised, and he told th-ns
"No."—Masseon said the captain went Into the fore-
men* and struck bins, but this the captain deed,
saying be had • chain hook in his head. but he did
net threaten to strike him with B.—Nilsson mid they
had rotten meet to sat, and this also we denied by
the captain, who said he and the others °Eons had
the sense meat, and bad not felt any @Meta from
cane D.—Another panne completed that th fore-
men* lesaked,:but the captain said he had not receive I
any oomplaints. The winners admitted that they
had not complained, but said that in stormy weather
the vend eked very much. The captain aid she
made • little eater, but not so much now as she di.'
on her Bret voyitge.
A surveyor appointed by the Board of Treie
named Samuel Shiny, stated that be had been
ordered by the Bard to survey the ship in Portland
Roads, and he heeded in a writan report, which was
rest It stated that the ship's crew was rather •
slight one, but the vessel was • Cos and able one.
He moulded her pumps, and, after waiting a quarter
of an hour, found little or no water. With the excep-
tion of • double toped, she bad not any modern
appliance
By the Chairmen : He considered the mew a light
on*, knowing what the men would be exploded to do,
and that the voyage was one of the hardest.
Tee mate, Thomas Frederick Shield, stated that be
bad been 35 years at see, and joined the easel for
this voyage. He lud been In her all down the Chen
-
eel, and found that the pump. were alright. He woe
willing toi.:inagain Its
thher. The prisoners did not make
any com t duringe heavy weenier In the
Channel, at when the ship entend the Roads for
them to have • rest they completed. During the
rough weather the captain had not his coat off foe 12
days.
Robert Perm, able seamen. said he joined the
mad at El athernotok Thor had ra:tfa weather
iplag to ID idlesborough, but the vassal behaved well
Hs was satisfied with her, and ready t cation* the.
voyage. The re dad net onopien of the ship
ix of the provision., Poetised they completed of
being UI;ill, be thought, from want of clothes for the
cold weather.
The prison's, in their defence, complained of the
leaking of the vessel, one of them seyiest that be erue
al and was compelled to work on finadayo
Lb. Bench sal I they failed to see. ether from the
evidence or time surveyor'. report. say unikation for
the Inienbe'll reining to work - They wen liable to
be imprisoned foe 12 weeks, but under all she
stance they would not pee go severe a seessoor ; the
asateaos warn Oat they be Imp lend sed kept to
bard labour for six weeks. Ths Chairman added
that they did not think there we any blame
attashed to the espies foe hie mammonist ad the