The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-02 00:00:00

TIN ONI NthIIDMID AND_ TIIIIITINTN DAT.-OLA:411 07

TVS lITIDINOL

A witness wee gulled oa Friday from the Caton-
house at New Odessa to show that there was oaly one
militia urea oak d the Osprey at Now o,lmas daring
thr year 1853. and that wee • Bridsh ship, sad that
there woe no Helvetia at that port, szoopt in 1831; sad
other evidence waa gives to show that this used son-
Mooed under that nsms_and ellacwittda sailed betwees
New York sad Havre. Ile prodased, moreover, a espy
of the orow-Ilst of tido Tenet, and thongh It we
stressonaly objected to on the part of this defendant
and a lemyythesed argument upon it eased, it was ad-
mitted is avid...... • itopy of • entails document, sal
asserdiag to it there wes se use\ penal es Jean
amass the as... Moreover, he bed searched tb•
✓egisters, and found no trace of a obese of the name
of any Helvetia Into an Osprey, end an Americas
barrister was sailed to prove that by Amertaan law
rah a °hangs was not allowable, sad that se Amadeu
registry of • torahs vessel we. not allowable', exeept
by special Aot of Congress. It was farther elioitcd by
one of th• Joey that the orew were 38 in number,
whored I,4i* bad staled there were 15. ividenoe was
then given to show that the New Bedford Osprey was
• whal.r, cad between 1851 and 1854 was engaged us
whaling voyage, and Dever cams near Me. This
avid...cos was obfroted to os the part of the deleadat,
os the greeted that lb* O•proy sworn to by Labe was
not from Mow Bedford, but from New York. The
Court answend that the defeadat had ellatinetly
Is court told his maul that the Osprey whisk
phked him up was a Now Bedford Osprey,
sad his counsel spur this bad misted that the
fast -us., and formal proof of this wee given. And
the Lord Chief JOIDiOD reminded his unmet that in
oon.equene. of this the prosecution bad seat out to New
Bedford, bad had brought over the mash of the Nes
Bedford Osprey, who we. sow sailed, sad, being eon.
frosted with Lelia said he had sense ores hi., aad had
sever peeked up any beat's twee at all. A witness who
I. well acquainted with Melbourne was allied to eon-
tradiet the statemeot of Leh that la 1865 ono of the
crew of the Bella, named Marrarthy, was living in •
certain street there The captain of the Belgiaa
steamer frem Ostend, in which Luba had sworn he same
over to Louden& se the 5% July lea, arrivisg, he said,
at night, stated that, to the best of his belief, no snob
man was on board; that DO other steamer but his omits
from Ostend at that time; end that he arrived, not at
9at eight, bat at 9 In the morning; and further, that
be bed seershed the register of lodging-house inmates
kept at Wood by the polio*, and found no person of
the name of Lae. Otter evidence was given in aosar
ration of this, and then it was announoed that the
clue for the promontion was finally dosed. An appll-
oition was then made on the part of the demos for
time to produce rebutting evidetoe. The court said
there we. no ground for the stylisation. Immediately
after the adjournment some tensation was sealed to
wort by something being said as to some Agree ag.lost
Luis, and two persona, it we. said, ldeatilled him to
mart ,• bet what the Midge was did not appear, cad
though a letter, which had jot bug rusived, contain-
ing certain statemects as to the witness, ate handed up
to the Coed, the Lord Chief Justice, after the Judges
had read It, said the Court were not called open to
interpose, as It did not appear to relate to the case;
and thus who bed ay sharge to prefer against Lod
might do so in the ordinai way.