The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-07 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION. HOUSE.
Thomas Golden Vail*, the chief-mate of the Pekin, was
again examiued, charged with killing a sailor, named Doyle,
un the high seas.
Captain Whitby mode additions I. the depositions which
he had made previously to the Wee of the warrant for the
apprehension of the accused. He said—On the day before
Doyle's death all hands were ordered aloft, and he alone
refused to go up. I remember kis asking for water in his
own language of his countrymen, bat I did not see an
Riven to him. I did not see the primmer strike him at all.
I solemnly swear it. The deceesea had •small white pimple
un his Ise, which gradually increased, notwithstanding the
application of sine powder which I got from my medicine
chest. It gradually got worn, till he lost, or pretended that
he lost, the sight of it altogether. I had pen him at work
during the forenoon of the day before be died.
The Lord Mayor—Did he appear lame ?
Witness—l saw no difference in him. He was not lame ;
he was clubfooted in both feet. He came down the rigging
of his own accord, and made no complaint to me whatever.
'le stood by the gangway for some time, and then lay down
sod rolled himself across the mainhatch grating to leeward
of the vessel.
The Lord Mayor—Are you aware of any injury done to
Dole?y
Witness—None whatever. It was I that until the pri-
toner's attention to Doyle, as be was going up the rigging.
Valle then took a piece of small line, and went up the
rigging, and passed the line round the shroud and sound
Doyle 's body, and fastened it behind. He then came down
to the poop, leaving Doyle tied to the rigging. Doyle
began to unloose himself, when the prisoner went up and
ended him, or cut him adrift altogether. The prisoner bad
not a piste of wood in the rigging, and I was sea position
to see everything that took place between Doyle and him ins
the rigging. It is not true that Doyle fell on the deck from
the rigging. If he had fallen from the rigging, he must
have fallen overboard. He sat himself down when he came
down from the rigging, and then rolled himself over the
mainhatch atings, and he remained under the foresail
from after 12 o'clock till 6 or 7 in the evening.
Mr. Mullins—What is the character of the prisoner for
humanity ?
Witness—He is a man of the greatest humanity. He has
been stain August, 1649, with me, sad I should be sorry to
lose him. Ile had, I think, the day before given Doyle a
pair of his own trousers, and Doyle died in befog,
trousers.
Jo* tone of the crew), whose evidence was given upon
the first examination, repeated the statement he had made
on that occasion. He said, upon his woes examination by
Mr. Mullins—l saw the prisoner strike the deceased three
times in the rigging with a lope. Doyle fell from the rig-
ging on the deck. I saw the prisoner beat Doyle on the
deck ones with the piece of wood. When beaten with the
wood Doyle was standing up, but he fell down, I think
from the blow. At another time the mate struck Doyle in
the eye. When the prisoner beat Doyle with the wood he
told us to take him forward. He did not tell us to take
him below till it was dark. We were willing to take him
below. _ _ _ .

11;11 (another of the crew, and native of the Sandwich
Isles) said—l knew Doyle. His name was Isamu Alothi.
I saw him dead. It took place ia the slu:p. I saw him
whoa on board, in his usual health. He same to his
death by being streak by the chief mate. I saw the pri-
eoner strike him, while I was is the main-rigging, with a
eord or rope and a piece of wood, over the back of the neck.
Doyle was then up the rigging, going up towards the top,
sad he fell down en the deck. After he fell on the deck I
saw the prisoner beat him with the wood three times on the
seek and back. I saw the prisoner strata Doyle at another
time on the eye. When Doyle foil on the deck from the
rigging he remitted down. He did not stand up that I
saw afterwards. His face was down, and he had no speech
afterwards. He lay there until the evening, when I took
him forward. Something wee offered him to eat, bat be
did not eat. _ _

—.—
The Lord Mayor—Was it by accident he fell down ?
Witnees—No. He fell from the striking by the pri-
soner. The rope with which be beat Doyle was a large
rope. He 'track Doyle in the rigging with the wood alone,
but with the rope when he fell upon the deck.
Mr. F. 8. Conryn, second mate of the Pekin, was next
sworn. MO believed Doyle's death to have been a natural
death. He distilled, denied the statements reflecting upon
the conduct of the prisoner, whom he described as a gentle-
man of the greatest humanity, and • pence whom he would
be proud to resemble in the performance of all private as
well as official duties. "I saw Doyle," said the witness,
"walls down the rigging. He deed there upon deck, end
be squatted down. I said to him, in hie own language,
' Die by-end-by.' He said, Water,' and I said to him his
messmates had his allowance of water, and they would give
it to hint."_ . . .

The Lord Mayor—Why were the words "Die by-and-by"
said by you ?
Witness—On amount of hie having been about a month
before in a stets of insensibility during twelve hours, when
I did not know whether he was dead or not. I did not
know at this time whether his conduct was from skulking
or sickness.
This concluded the evident*. .

Mr. lirtll;l7ee-nbcaltiaihatit was quite impossible that
any jury on oath could my that his client wu the cause of
the death of Henry Doyle.
The Lord Mayor said the cam was of Ilk serious a notate
for him to decide upon without miamination of the evidence.
It was most important to the public and to the prisoner that
an adjoaranteat should take place, and ha accordingly ap-
t pointed Wednesday for giving hie decision.