The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

THE LIVINGSTONE SEARCH
EXPEDITION.

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---- The Cape mail steamer Celt, which arrived at
DEATH OF A FENIAN IN MILLBANK Plymouth on Friday, brought most welcome news.
PRISON. I Among her pa.engers were Mr. Young, Captain
! Faulkner, and Mr. Reid—three of the four gentlemen
On Tuesday afternoon the coroner for Westminster held , who were sent to make inquiries into the truth of the
a lengthened inquiry respecting the death of an trials pri-
soner named Edward Dully, w_te ny y story of the Johanna men, that Dr. Livingstone
, ee.
draper in D dubliM, in the Penitentiary, at Mb tformerl a had b n murdered These three gentlemen re-
illank.
port that the statement of the Johanna men is
Deceased appeared to have been a man about 5 ft.
certainly untrue. Mr. Young
7 in. in height, with dark hair and moustache, and an e• and his party followed
, the tracks of Dr. Livingstone to within a few miles
American beard. ' of the place where he was said to have been /nun
Mr. Walluck, the deputy-governor, said he received
the deceased on the 4th of October, 1857, from Pen- dered. There they found that the doctor had changed
his plans as to the direction he would take, and had,
tonville prison. with his negro companions, been ferried over a marshy
Joseph Randall, infirmary warder, said he bad lake. The Johanna men made a detou, round the
charge of the deceased from his admission till the time
o lake, and returned the next day saying they had de-
f his death, which occurred on the 17th of January. sorted 1/r. Livingstone because he was leading them
The deceased expressed his surprise at the very kind
treatment he experienced, having heard that the into a country where they wool I be murdered. Mr.
, Young and his friends further saw the native porters
Penitentiary was the worst prison in England. I who had carried Dr. Livingstone's luggage four days'
Vincent Zenotta, visiting priest, said he saw the journey beyond the place where the murder was said
deceased every (lay, and the latter expressed his to have been committed,
gratitude for the kind treatment he received. Shortly
before his death deceased dictated a letter to his I
sister in America. After this he began gradually to A supplement to the Cape Town Advertiser and
sink, and had the sacrament administered to him. I Mail, dated Dec. 10, contains the following
He died at half-past eleven o'clock en the 17th of i Mews b" been received c•miire'leg the intelligence of
January. ! the safety if Dr. Livingstone. Der Majesty's steamer Racoon,
the Mr.
from Z teatime, has brought it ovn from the Zambesi, Dec. 3,
Edward Poeklington, assistant-surgeon, saw tne NI, yeggag ami party, of the Livingstone Search Expedition.
deceased on his admission on the 4th of October. He , They bad gone up to Lake Nyisssa as originally intended, and
was put to be I, and some wine was given to him, thence were enabled to trace the doctor tar beyond the place
The surgeon found him suffering from inflammation of where he was said to have been murdered, and found setts-
! the lungs- factory evidence that he was still alive and going on towards
Mr. Robert Gover, M.R.C.S., the principal medical e r h'
Lake Tatigamika and thence down the Nile. It was clearly
prove t..a. t e , o Rna MCI. lag ese e im.
db s .11 I b I I d t d
officer of the prison, saw deceased on the morning of Mr. Faulkner arrived at Cape Town last night, and at once
the sth of October, and examined him. He found him furnished a detailed statement to the press From this it
suffering from pleurisy in both sides, and inflammation appears that as they sore sailing down Lake Nyassa they
of both lungs. IN, knees prescribed port wine and 11,:aird at various points of Dr..l;ieVengistttwittL's
,vsifbe2di
la,yndu;i:
brandy, sago and arrowroot ,• but he became gradually . .t! .!
Ifi'matihaeos nal% he hal:en killed It is known that
worse and expired at the time above stated. The s areng a, the chief of the village of that name, was extremely
witness added that he did not think that being removed civil to Livingstone, and so he was found to be by those in
from Pentonville prison at all accelerated his death, search of him. It appeals lie had ferried Dr. Livingstone
lii, death was caused by pleurisy on both sides and across a lake forming an indentation in the banks
inflammation of both lungs. , of Nyassa, which he might have circled on foot at the
The n h
jury returned a verdict of natural death. i cost ed a detour. Marenga gave the searching party
. every information iis possession, and presented
them with a very acceptable supply of fresh pro'
PROSECUTION OF DUBLIN NEWS- t .ionn.
that it will be remembered that it was at this
Po' in the Johanna men abandoned Livingstone.
PAPERS. While Livingstone went across the marsh the natives skirted
the margin, and on returning to the village reported they
On Saturday evening, a summons addressed to Mr. were being led into a hostile country, and at once made
A. M. Sullivan, T.C., wall served by the police at the their way for the seaboard. The last place named by Dr.
Nation newspaper office, Lower Abbey-street. The Kirk, Maksowa, was two days' journey irons Mare:sta. The
following is the complaint embodied in the summons chief
c thisnisofn Velt'sgeertdetbeirwitiorivhSirbaeye'ab'l ~ployeTb J
to be heard at Capel-street Police Office, at twelve °convey the baggage of Dr. Livingstone twenty miles furthei
o'clock on Wednesday :—To answer the complaint of in a north-westerly direction. Both Captain Faulkner and
the Queen at the prosecution of the Attorney- Mr. Yollog regarded the information as conclusive, but
I leneral, and show cause why informations shall with a view of discovering the position of Thpeolvid;i's seettles
not be talcen against yo h forth in u, for that you, on the !Tut t
, Teoyb prxisliedeitobin eti,sbflvtois r.
I the she ' gapo'll.:lTL
days and dates respectively set te annexed 12. Lly
fr,,m the village on a trading but his
list, at Lower Abbey-street, within the said district, ••
mOther, who was at. home,
informed expedition, the party that Dr.
did print and publish in a certain newspaper called the Llvimptone hail passed through there, Will that some ot his
Weekly News, the several seditious libels contained in party subsequently returned. The mother of the chief further
the several pictures and articles mentioned in the said r produced a Prayer-book containing the name co,f,
,c,ic of
tthe
annexed list, tending to bring into hatred and con- doctor's followers, m lio had been left bel‘i I ohi
boun
,b f
lameness. The Johanna men Isail represented t a oy, w o
tempt Her Majesty's govermnent and the administrae
was named Waikatanee, as having deserted. It appears
tion of justice within the United Kingilom, contrary that at this time the boy was alweet with the chief, so that
to the form if the statute made and provided.— the exploring party hail no opportunity of a personal inter-
Signed, C. .1. OTOONFL.—To Alexander M. Sullivan, ! view with him. Altogether Messrs. Young and Faulkner
registered minter and publisher of the Weekly News, could have no reasonable doubt of Dr. Livingstone's safety,
Lower Al be y-stree
v. A. M. Sullivan. —List of publications having been accomplished. They proceed to England by thet. and accordingly at Inlce returned, the object of their mission
The Queen i l steamer to-da P.
selected from the Weekly News referred to in the ma
annexed summons:—
June 22, 1867.—A picture entitled" England and Austria—
& Striking Contrast."
October 19.—A picture entitled "British Prison Practices."
November 30 —A picture entitled "is is Done." Article
entitled "The Manchester 'fretted),"
December 7.—A picture entitled •' The Angel of Justice."
Article entitled "Ireland'a Reply." Ditto ''rho DeMoll9ten.
WM To-morrow " A paragraph in the fourth ecolumn of the
sense page commencing " In connection with."
December la —Article entitled "The Funeral Procession."
January 11, 1808.—Paragraph entitled "A Fenian Placard."