The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-05 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION:HOUSE.

Thomas Golden raik, the first mateof the Pekin cei her
voyage from Columbia to England, who ems charged upon
suspicion of having caused the death of Doyle, a Saadwieh
Islander, one of fillet n natives who were engaged to navi-
gate the vessel, was brought up for reexamination. The
prosecution has been instituted by the director" of the Hue-
son's Bay Company, whose agent having entered into bond
to send back the foreigners to their own country, it was
found upon inquiry that one was missing, inconsequence of
which the rest of the crew were questioned, and ft was as-
etertained that the missing man had expired on board, under'
circumstances of great suspicion.
Mr. Maynsrd, of the firm of Crowder and Maynard, at-
tended for the prosecution ; Mr. Mullen, of the firm of
Bush and Mullen', attended for the prisoner.
Tom, one of the witnesses upon whose information that
the first mate had stru k Doyle with a piece of wood and a
rope, and that Doyle was disabled by that violent treatment,
poke afterwards, and died next morning, the war-
rant was granted, was put in the box. The Rev. Mr. Ellis',
attended as interpreter, and the examination, which varied
in no respect from the statement made upon the applies-
ties for the warrant, was necessarily tedious and uninte-
resting. The manner of the witness certainly seemed to
cause a general belief in the court that he really stated what
be considered to be facts.
On his cross-examination Tom said—l was in the rigging
when Doyle fell on the deck, and I was going up to the
maintop when the prisoner beat him with the rope. We
were all going up at the time. The captain of the vessel
was astern when the prisoner beat the man with the rope,
and did not lee him do so. The captain did net know of
the striking of Doyle with the rope after he fell. I
know Mr. Cumming, the second mats. He was up
with us in the rigging when Doyle feU on the
deck, and when the prisoner beat him with the rope.
We were aloft at the time of the beating with the rope,
Ttefill_g at the top. I had not been aloft hi fore the prisoner
beat Doyle with the wood. I was on one side and Wol.
Loftus, the third mate, was on the same aide, and Win.
Cumming was un the other side. I was the last man up
the ridging before Doyle. I saw the prisoner take the 11
wood with which be beat Doyle front the upper deck, and
I saw him take the rope from the side of the ship, where it
lay coiled up. I saw the prisoner come down the rigging,
after the beating had taken place. Ido not recollect Doyle
being ill about a month before, nor do I recollect his being
missed from duty, or being found between the decks ap-
parent dead. Doyle complained of having a pain in
one foot; otherwise I do not know that he
was ill. He was much the same as the beet of
us, as to being dirty or clean. (Some laughter was caused
by the difficulty which the interpreter found In this passage
of the evidence, there being no word in the language
of the Sandwich Isles to express the meaning of either til,h
or its contrast.) We all slept down below in the keens. We
did not turn out Doyle from the place ie which we slept. I
did not beat Doyle, her he was a gresunan, and I never
saw any oldie others beat him. We never took Doyle's
food. He would sometimes give me food, or we wou'd give
food to one another. The captain diu not put Doyle by
himself to eat his food. The other men did not steal his
food. I have been in prison in my own country once.
It was for riding on a horse—not for stealing a horse.
The Lord Mayor said that as it would be necessary to
pursue the Investigation, and a considerable time must
still be occupied in the investigation, be would adjourn the

Mr. Mullene said be bad no objection upon the part lathe
prisoner, but be took that opportunity of declaring that
more gross misrepresentations could not have been made
than had been made by those who accused his client. The
facts would be found to be that there was no foundation
whatever for the charge, that the deceased was a man of
such filthy and lazy habits that his own countrymen could
not endure him, and had refused to let him mess with, or
sleep amongst them ; that he had been found between
decks after having gorged himself with food, as it was be-
lieved, which he bad stolen, and, open being ordered up
theahrouds with the other men, he, when there was neces-
sity for considerable exertion, refused to do the duty ; that
the chief mate bad retrained from punishing him for Ai
breech of duty, and merkly tied him up for a short time,
sad that be came down upon the deck himself, without
treated with the least violence by any one. It wee
the act, too, and would be proved beyond all question, that
the comrades of the deceased had refused to carry him down
when he was ill upon deck, and that his illness was probs.
bly occasioned by his exposure to the weather, from which
he suffered, on account of the objection which the rest of
the crew entertained to his presence amongst them in the'
proper place for repose.
The prisoner was then remanded, and, boil having been
accepted for his future appearance, was permitted to leave
the justice-room.