The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-05-09 00:00:00

THE MURDER OF A HULL FISHER LAD.

VIADJUL MAIL.
A figurate, named °mond O'Brand, aged alf. was
charged at the Lied. Amuses, on Thursday, with the
wilful ni.ader of a boy Darnel Wini/131 POW. Ca the
high sem. From the opining spook of the 00011•111 for
li. proesomioe, Kr. Weddy. Q.O. the mode of peooldtve
by 1.111011 tee pi ismer accomplished his crime warn horrible
and fiendish. Pepper died on the 2Oth December lest on
board the limn liming smack the &Una Bun, on which
boat the prleoster wee the skipper and part °Wader lad the
boy was his apprentacia On December lath. the Badog
Sao went to sea, and just before stertiog. tee
who was a gentle nod antiatie boy. maid to the salaam'
"My stew Lassa know. you. This remark had* been
=de in the hearing of his wife, the prisoner said 111 in,
you when ere get out. Teo setae semi* that the arose*
witted, off Sunk Island, primate followed the lad to the
cabin, and said " I know your sister do 1; I know know
you.' sod be thrashed him about the heed sad body with
a thick knotted rope, two feet long, tad lumps at each
ea 4 of the sine of an apple, so that tee puss ter staggered
away bleeding. Theo fell 'wed a persistent cruelty suck
as iscurnage foiled to describe. Besides blows and
o variety of ill-treatment on several following days.
the boy underwent a counts of
.preetirel eteroation.
On December 13. at the Dogger Beak ad laded from
Spurn Point. without Amy provocation whatever, the
seismic knocked thie boy down with his clenched Bet wad
ordered him forward for the.. days, which lomat teat
In the depth of winter he wee not to go below at all. But
that was net enough. The skipper of the smack took the
jib Pershave roPe, lied the ortolan use he made alit
r. Waddy. who prosecuted, declined to eacribo, but ita
ordeeed the boy to the stem or the bowsprit, and stranding
there he himself poured tea or twelve becktits .4 mid
water over his shivering fell ,w creature. ;ban, with
sort of visa humour, he made the box ahoWderr a P..ad.
spike like • rid-, and :ailed oqt t.t the other
.hand. to look
at their new thrure bead, wldie kelit skoutirig " All
Cuckoo r ifl to I hadn't!
bee.. oar; boy, 1 Monti not havo wen here, Cuckoo
A. ; !
6.4 41. *kw. he stood there. cold, weory, and filled with
numbness, he thrsatied the deceased ones more. On the
14. h he compelled Blackburn. &minor apprient.toe, to wind
tbe boy deliberately up to the cresetomer, and when he
was lowered agsin prisonsrjumped upon him. (hristmas.
day came, but the treatment woo if pastble., verso then
ever on that day. The boy having *ea roped upon at
dieser time the rest of the mow brid roast dock and
teal rddini. but ea Asai!god stretchiest oat his
ac • Plath owia the Priem" struck it.
There wag
i it.n2 akbpard, The banes of the duck, when
Pt.d
. Sea to the dog. lead whits the dog had illo=l the remains were hooded to poor Pepper,
In the court.) Altar he had been four days
tad four nights on *ilk. Psalm asked that he might go
below fog • week
.which gave the primmer • further
oppostunigg of shun* his inamnity In torture. The boy
was made to strip naked there and then, and was Put into
the tab fee solos, arid washed by the mac, after which he
was run up nod down It. deck to dry bun, and then fresh
cold water was thrown speck hire. Whim he could not
get ug. and WM utterly beiPlessamthee• wag only on.
to
remold/. mad that was thresh again. On the NIA
December the primrose told demised to fray his prayers,
for be would 001 11,. another day. That day the bog was
Plunged down Into the dill hole full of Wailes/sr. and
while there the prisoner jumped ups% him from the
hatchway. The boy could ouly %Faith "0.41, help ma."
and the fog bell happening, to the empties of all. to begin
to toil. the prisoner mesM-4''Ah I there's the hall tolling
for I..pitiuiedea•St was retorted to the edema. that the
bo7 • ebe dying ; And • good thing, too: said
Barri But tags hoisted hien over the boat's side
In a maths, and dipped kW, Into the Sea to root" hut instead of that the some semi* the prisogegli worL
was dime, for the boy died. Dad d the &Wit hie
Corpse was coaunltted to the ase 3i. Next
ear' trtl7l2`.ll7:=tf.
to try to
szrc b: all in fer kwit three hours before
his dead had been cast awity into the deep, On the
return of the Mang Simla Roll prhooer reported to
the pollee that popper hid been wathed over board on New
Year's Day in a gust of wind by the foresail; and, when
tesplaioth below to raise In Natl, the prisoner triad to
intimidate the parents of Pepper, and did all he could to
Vatt it 'striae knows that he had killed the boy by

vsiDICT AND worm&
04 Wednesday the trial was resnmed.
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