Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-20 00:00:00

cause of it. Deceased sometimes talked sensibly, but
sometimes he spoke as if he was a little out of his mind.
The third day after the vessel sailed, the captain called for
a whip, which the steta,rd brought, and the captain laid
it across deceased's back. Deceased appeared to witnes,
up to that time to hsve always obeyed orders. Saw him
flogged every tray by the three prisoners ; never a day
passed that they did not flog him. They flagged him
sometimes with a wh'p, and sometimes with a rope's end.
'I here was a dog on board. Saw the captain set
the deg at the deceased ; the clog bit deceased
on the leg and arm. Witness saw blood flow. Saw
dezeased often in irons. Never knew why he was put in
irons. Never observed that he neglected his duty or
disabeyed orders. Saw him flagged while in irons by the
captain's orders. Three of the men flogged him. Deceased
on three cecasions dirtied the deck. Hi was in irons upon
these cecasions. Saw him flogged ten or twelve times
during one day by the prisoners, or one or other of them.
Saw him one day with an iron bolt in his mouth. It was
put across his mouth, and bound with spun-yarn round
his head. Did not see it lut in, but saw it in his mouth
from four o'clock to half-past five. Saw the two mates
getting the bolt acd the yarn, but did not then know what
they were getting it for. Deceased's hands were chained
to a ringbolt in the deck behind his back. On another
day the chief mate gave orders to have the head of a cask
knocked out ; the carpenter was gone to his dinner, so the
mate himself took out the head of a cask. The captain
looked cn. They then put Rose into the cask, and
fastened up the head again. This was about twelve o'clock
in the day. They then roiled the cask along the deck,
and lashed it in its place. The deceased continued in the
cask until twelve o'clock that night. Witness spoke to
I him through the bang of the cask. Deceased did not
make any complaint. Saw demoteed when he was taken
out, he was all over sweat, and full of soess. On another
occasion remembers deceased dirtying the deck; deceased
was then in irons ; the captain took a " lid," and took the
excrement on it from the deck and put it into the mouth of
the deceased. Saw the same thing done upon a second occa-
sion by the captain. Ths mates were present upon the
latter occasion. The captain used a long stick that time
instead of the " fid." Has seen deceased quite naked on
the deck ; he had scarcely any clothes when he came on
board, and those; he had were pitched overboard. because
he had dirtied them. The captain give him a pair of
trousers, and he dirtied Chess aloe. Remembers seeing
Rise sent aloft to furl the sail when naked; he was sent
by the chief mare, who, at the same time, struck him with
a rope's end. On another cccasion, I card the captain call
him (witness), and witness went to him. The captain said,
" Come and make a hangman of yourself, and we will hang
These." Witness said he could not make a hangman of
himself Saw the captain get a rope, and make a " umber
hitch," that is such a hitch as is put round timber.
( Witness here made a hitch of the kind decribed with a rope
which was handed him.) The captain put the hitch round the
deceased's neck. The tw.) other prisoners were assisting.
They hitched Rase by the neck off the deck, and he hung
suspended to a spar for about two minutes. Witness saw
his tongue hanging out of his throat. When they lowered
him again he fell on his baek, and lay like a dead man.
None of the prisoners gave him any assistance. He lay
there four or five minutes, and then got up the best he could
On another occasion, when deceased was in irons, saw the
chief mate throw water over him. Deceased died about
eight days before the vessel came into part—about two
days before the vessel sighted Cape Clear. After the
hanging, witness heard the deceased say, " You had better
kill me at once." Deceased was three days in the fore-
castle after the hanging. Saw his body after death. It
was full of sores and corruption. There were marks of the
whip all red over it. Did not see any sores upon
deceased's body when he came on board. The bites of
the dog upon his laxly never healed. Saw them on hie
body after his death. They were sore and full of maggots.
For some days before his death he was nothing but a
mass of sores all over. Deceased was a very quiet
man, and so far as witness observed always obeyed the
orders, and did the work given to him. Cross-examined
by Mr. Monck : Has been at sea ten years. There were six
able seamen on board the vessel, one ordinary seaman, a
boy, a cook, a steward, and the three prisoners. On the
29th of April witness signed articles. The-e were two
watches ;kept, the captain's and the first mate's. The
second mate kept the captain's watch. The deceased was
not placed upon either watch. Witness does not know
the reason why. Witness did not observe on the first day
he went on board that deceased dirtied the forecastle.
Does not remember any :circumstance that day about a
shirt belonging to Power, one of the seamen, being thrown
overboard. Never heard anything about Power's shirt
being used by deceased to wipe up dirt which he had
made. Deceased threw a pair of trowsers overboard
which :he had dirtied, Deceased was in the habit
occasionally of dirtying his trowsers. Saw deceased dirty
the deck perhaps a dozen times during the voyage.
Never saw him throw the fi th into the hold. Thera was
rice in the hold. Part of the cargo consisted of ram.
Never saw the deceased drinking rum except when the
captain gave it him. The captain sometimes gave
him half a tumbler full of rum to make him drunk,
Is positive that the captain sometimes tried to
make him drunk. The man was not sensible.
Is positive that when not in irons deceased
always did his work. It is part of the duty of an able
seaman to steer. Saw the deceased steering, but he was
turned away from the helm. Does not know whether he
was able to steer. He was capable of fulfilling all the
duties of an able seaman, so far as witness could observe.
Deceased appeared to be on good terms with the crew
except the prisoners. Saw no quarrelling or fighting.
except that one of the men was going to beat the deceased
one day, and the cook got between them. The man who
was going to beat the deceased was Groves. Did not
observe that Groves had any thi, g in his hand at the
time. Did not see any blood on Rose's face at the time.
Never saw Power strike deceased. Power was in witness's
watch. Heard that one of the boats was adrift, but was
not present when it was brought back The deceased
. slept in the forecastle pert of the first night, bet was
removed by the captain's orders. After that he did not
sleep in the forecastle, but sometimes he used to run
down when no one was looking. Believes he went into
the hol I two or three times, but does not know whether
he was skulking or not. Deceased died about eight days af-
ter the hanging. When he grew worse, he got medicines
from the captain ; he also got brandy and oil. There w s
rice cooked for him once or twice. Saw Groves once strike
the deceased with the hick of his hand; deceased was tied
up by the wrists that night by the men because he appeared
drunk or mad, and they thought it safer to tie him ; hoard
something said about deceased having matches, and that it
was dangerous to the ship. Cross-examined by M.
Aspinall During the last three days before his death, the
deceased was not turned out of the forecastle by the men.
The day of his death witness and Groves took hiss out of
the forecastle that he m'ght wash himself. Saw him after-
wards lying on the forecastle on the port-side. It was not
bad weather. The sea was washing over the deck some-
times oa the leeside. It sometimes washed over his feet
and legs. Did not see waves coming over his head. The
spray sometimes came over his head. If he had been
removed to the other side of the ship the water would not
have come over him at all. Heard something about
deceased dirtying a bucket of sugar cn one occasion. Dies
not know how often deceased deserted before the ship
left Berbadoes. To Mr Attorney-General Bliss: When
the deceased was tied by the wrists and appeared
mad, that was after ,he hanging. Deceased
was not allowed to mess wth the. other sea-
men. The food he commonly received was
dry bread and water. The other seamen had meat, and
tea and sugar. Did not ree Rose have any, except w ten
the men gave him soma ; it was after the hanging that the
captain gave him medicine. First saw sores upon him the
fourth or fif h day after leaving Berbadoee that was of er
he had bean several times beaten. William Groves
examined by Mr. Seymour : Shipped as an able seaman
on board the Martha Jane. Went on board the day
she sailed. Had not been on board above a quarter of an
hour when the chief mete came down into the forecastle,
struck the deceased in the face and kicked hint. Saw him
afterwards flogged with a rope's end by Miles and
Seymour separately. Did not see any cause for it.
Thinks Rose was able to discharge the duties of an able
seaman. Witness has been at sea since 1837, Saw de-
ceased take the helm. He stood about a quarter of an
hour there when the captain came and drove him forward.
Witness was watching him to see whether he could steer.
and is positive that he could steer. When witness first
came on board deceased appeared in good health. He was
a stout built man. On the day after the vessel sailed saw
deceased whipped about the deck by the captain, and rope's-
ended by the other two prisoners. Heard deceased saying
a 0 my God, what have I done ?" Saw the same thing done
almost every day. Saw the dog fly at deceased, and take
pieces of flesh out of his thighs, arms, and feet. The dog
was set at deceased by the captain often. Saw Rose in
irons several times, sometimes fastened by the hands
and sometimes by the feet to a ringbolt. On one
occasion saw the captain and the two mates come up to
him, and the captain put a " fid" with excrement Iva' it.
into his mouth. Tnis witness saw done again by
the captain on the following day with a long stick De-
ceased had dirtied the deck. He was ironed on each
occasion. On another occasion decaased'wes in irons on
the deck and was praying ; the captain told him to stop
that noise, and he did so. The captain called the prisoner
Seymour, and told him to b-ing an iron bolt and some
spanyarn. Seymour brought a bolt which was too short,
and he then got a longer one. The captain and Seymour
tied d ceased's hands,. put the bolt into his month, and
fastened it round his head with the spunyarn. Deceased
was allowed to remain in that position for about an hour.
The following day the captain ordered the chief mate to

unlash a water cask, which he did. The head
was taken out. The captain said, " Come, Rose, get in
here." The captain and the mate put Rose in, and
headed up the cask again. He was allowed
to remain there from ab out twelve in the day until eleven
or fwelve at night. The chief mate said he would not
mind keeping him there twenty-thur hours. As witness
was passing the cask, deceased asked for some water.
Witness told the mate he wanted weer. One day witness
was at the wheel, and heard the captain say to deceased,
" Why don't you jump overboard or hang yourself ?"
Deceased said, " I wish you would do it for me." " Come
along then," the captain said, and he took him forward.
Witness could not sea what occurred because one of the
deck-houses was in the way. The captain came aft again
soon after and said, " Two seconds longer hanging, and he
would be a dead man." The witness gave au account of
the appearance of the deceased's body shortly before his
death, similar to that described by the former witness.
The crew had rations of meat regularly, but deceased was
never allowed his rations like any other man. After the
hanging the deceased gof some brandy to drink, and he
becerte quite crazy. The men in the forecastle tied his
hands f)r safety. Cross-examined by Mr. Monck: The
day after witness came on board he saw the dog set at
the prisoner, perhaps half a dozen times Deceased had a
pair of trowsers which ha threw overboard because he had
dirtied them. The captain gave him an old psir of troweers.
Saw no neglect or incapwity to discharge a seaman's
duty cn the part of the deceased ; he did not sleep in the
forecastle until shortly before he died, when witness took
him in by the captain's orders. That was about two weeks
after the hanging. The deceased and the crew were all
good friends. One day deceased took a flannel shirt of
witness's and tore it, and witness would have struck him
with his hand except for the cook. Witness struck him
on one occasion ; it was the day before he died. Never
heard the captain say, " That villain Groves will murder
Rose." Never complained of the captain's taking Rose's
part when he (witness) was abusing him. Once told the
prispner Miles th :t he heard some of the men say they saw
Rose havingta box of matches. Never said if Rose was
not kept in irons he would set the ship on fire. Did not
say anything to the captain or Miles about his setting the
ship on fire • some of the men said something about Rose
setting the ;hip on fire, but witness did not tell it to the
captain or Miles. Tae deceased was dirty in his habits,
but witness stated that it was principally when he was in
irons. On cross-examination by Mr. Aspinall, witness
denied that he had ever struck the deceased so as to
make him bleed. Francis Doyle, seaman, deposed
that, before the vessel sailed, the deceased went ashore
more than once, and on one occasion took one of
the ship's boats. He was brought back and put in irons.
The witness described the beatings and whippings inflicted
upon the deceased, in similar terms to the evidence of the
previous witnesses. He stated, that on oneof the occasions,
when the filth was forced down his throat, the deceased
endeavoured to keep his mouth shut, upon which the cap-
tain thrust the " filth" up his nostrils, and when he was
thus forced to open his mouth put the excrement into it
Every time deceased tried to close his mouth the captain
did the same thing. When dece tsed was in the cask wit-
ness went to him, and deceased told him he was very
thirsty; witness poured through the bueg of the cask some
pea-soup into his mouth. The mate cameup after and saw
some remains of the pea-soup, and said if he knew who gave
it to deceased, he would rope's end the person. Witness cor-
roboraael the evidence as to the biting of the doh, and the
hanging' He described the face of deceased while hanging
as all blood red, with his tongue hanging out and his eyes
starting from their eecke'e. He stated that on one occasion
he saw the chief mate lash the d 'ceased until the blood
ran down his body. Oe cross-examination by Mr. Monck,
the witness admitted havieg once struck the deceased
whh, the side of a hand-saw for dirty habits. The
deceased once stole some sugar which he eat. The
witness was also cross-examined by Mr. Aspinall.
To Mr. Bliss : The deceased was a quiet and inoffensive
man ; he sometimes sang hymns, and sometimes songs.
Mr. Monck : Some of the songs were; not very decent, I
believe. Witness : Oh, yes decent enough fur sailors.
(Lauthter.) William Davison, seaman, gave evidence of
a character generally simlar to that of the previous wit-
nesses. He stated that he saw the deceased man hasten
almost every hour of the day and nigh,. William Power,
seatnen, was placed in the box, but Mr. Bliss said he did not
think it necessary to examine the witness. He was only
called that Mr. Monde might have the opportunity of cross-
examining him if he thought fit. Cross examined by Mr.
Monck : The deceased once dirtied the forecastle, and used
a shirt of witness to wipe it up ; witness hove the shirt
overboard ; he once dirtied up aloft ; he frequently dirtied
the deck when in irons, and sometimes when not in irons;
never saw Graves or Hayes set the dog at deceased ; de-
ceased had a very large appetite; ha eat an enormous
catantity ; witness objected ti deceased remaining in the
forecastle on account of his dirty habits. Deceased always
said he could doseaman's duty, but when he came to do it he
could not do it. He could not steer He tried to splice
a hawser, but he could not. To Mr Bliss : The man did
not seem to be right in his mind. To Mr. Monck : Had
no cause to complain of the captain ; he seemed kind to
the crew. Bejamin Martin, the cook, was examined by
Mr. Seymour, and gave evidence generally corroborative
of that of the previous witness. To Mr. Monck : Deceased
cnce took a piece of meat out of the cabin ; it was part of
the captain's dinner ; witness shoved him out of the
g dley. The cabin boy Kenned v was examined, but
nothing material transpired. Mr. Desmond, surgeon, was
examined by Mr. Bliss, and stated that, assuming the
evidence of the first witnesses to be correct. and the treat-
ment described by them !o have continued from the 11th
of May to the 6:h of June, it probably would have induced
milt a condition as, joined with the hanging, might have
terminated fatally. Mr. Wall, surgeon of the Northern
Hospital, depos d that, assuming the description of the
treatment to be correct, it would be sufficient to cause death.
Mr. Pennington, surgeon, was also produced to speak as to
the probability of death ensuing from the causes described.
The official log was pat in evidence, which contained
several entries of deceased being put in irons for skelking,
stealing, dirtying clothes, &c Ode entry st ited that the
captain had to stand over him with a whip to make him
wash himself. but there was no record of his having been
fl ogged or otherwise corp -deal]] punished except by being
ironed. John Eaton, detective officer, deposed that on
Thursday, the 12th June, he apprehendet the prisoner
Miles, and took him to the police-station ; the same night
he arrested the captain. lie said, on being informed of
the charge, " that he always expected it, f,r lie heard that
villain Groves wanted to gat up something against him,
and t at he had seen Groves id-use the man himself;"
eubseqeently he said, " the worst usage he gave Rose was
using the whip, which he had in the cabin ; and that the
night before Rose died, Rose told him Groves said he
would get up some case against him, and would get
10s. a-day for attending the police-court, in Liver-
pool." The captain also said that when Ross cams on
beard, he was ever sores, in consequence of sleeping in
the fields in Be badoes. Detective-officer Ham deposed
that he arrested the prisoner Seymour. Waen the pri-
setter was informed of the charge against him, he replied
that the least said at that time was the better. This closed
the case. Mr. Monck objected that the vessel was not
proved to be a British ship. On the part of the crown,
evidence was given which established the fact. Mr.
Monck then proceeded to address the jury on behalf of
the captain. After. some introductory observations, he
procee led to remark that in such a case as that every man
who could Sal any one circumstance which transpired from
the period when the deceased man came on board the
vessel, should have been called before the jury, to give
them mo eor less information, or at allavents, to satisfy
them before they give their verdict that They had as much
information as it was possible to ohtein. When they had
a case ushered in, not only with the presence of the
Attorney-General, but with all the solemnity of his decla-
ration that it was a direct government prosecution, they
might have expected that somewhat more of candour, if
not of generosity to the prisoners at the her, would
hey:: been exhibited. He then asked the jury if any one
of them who ever sat in a criminal trial before, had
ever known such a prosecution, in which no possible
motive was alleged for the offence which was stated to
have been perpetrated ? What could be the motive of
the prisoners, except sheer and pure malignity, in going
on with a series of acts of oppeession and cruelty, one
after another, until they hurried their victim into death ?
It shoted be remembered that this vessel was short of
hands. There ware three men wanting. There actually
ware not men enough comfortably, and according to the
character of the work and tl:e exigencies of a voyage, to
work the ship ; and yet the captain would reject the
services of a competent man, an able seaman, a sailor fully
capable of steering and of performing all the ditties of a
seaman on board a vessel. He reminded the jury of the
position in which the captain of a vessel stood if he got
about him incompetent men. The cktain was the person
upon whose energies and determination, mental and
physical, upon whose prudence and discretion, not only
the property committed to his care, but that
which was infinitely more valuable, his own life, as well
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services of an able-bodied man ? The mere suspicion of
anything of the kind was absurd. What possible motive
could he have had for doing so, and for perpetrating such
acts as those which had been described, and which were
alleged to have hurried the deceased to his grave ?
He (counsel) could not help thinking that some little more
information might have been afforded to them by the
prosecution. Was it tue that the deceased was full of
sores when he first came on board ? Some of the wit-
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in the evidence for the prosecution of a most
serious character; and, therefore, he should say ag sin that
more information should have been afforded to them.
There were other witnesses who were examined for the
prosecution before the magistrates ; why had they not
been called, or why had not some attempt been made to
reconcile the many discrepanc:es in the case, to some of
which he had already drawn the'r attention ? What
possible object could the prisoners have in doing
that which could conduce to the death of the deceased ?
The act of one could not be taken, and, as it were, added
to some particular act of the other, to show a common
object, and that object the destroying the life of the
deceased. What was there in the whole case
to show that the deceaned had not been brought
to his grave by long continued disease ? Indeed it was
very plain that such was the fact. His close-cropped hair
would lead one to suppose that he had not long lefh some
hospi al, while his ravenous appetite and filthy habits
showed clearly that he was in a declining state of health
Were they then prepared to say that he had just that
amount of vitality in him which would have enabled bim to
outlive the voyage, had it not been for the ill treatment he
received ; and what act was it which had accelerated his
death, accep'ing for the moment as true all that the
witnesses for the prosecution had stated ? They had beard
the medical evidence, and he (counsel) would ask them
whether they were prepared, as reasonable men, to con-
sign the prisoners to an untimely and ignominious death
on such speculative opinions as they had heard from the
medical gentlemen' n the case He was not there to justify or
to be the apologist of such acts as putting a man into a cask
or of any of the other modes of punishing a refractory
man which they had heard detailed in the case. But that
was not the question. The question was not whether
what they had done was the best to preserve the discipline of
the ship, but whether they bad of their malice aforethought
taken the deceased's life. The learned counsel then dwelt
on the filthy habits of the deceased, and asked if it were
probable that the prisoners would have prevented him
from avoiding them. They punished him for those filthy
habits, perhaps, as a filthy dog or cat only should be
p inished ; and was it probable that they would have pre-
vented him from going forward when the necessary
consequence would be a continued indulgence in those
habits. Counsel then referred to the unfair advantage
which the Crown has, as prosecutors, in having the right
of reply, and remioded the jury that, even if they acquitted
the prisoners in the present indictment, the prosecution
might again put them on their trial on grave and serious
charges, though not such as would affect their lives.
Mr. Aspinall addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoners
Miles and Seymour. He contended that the conduct of
the prisoners he represented must, to a great extent, be
judged according to the position which they held. They
were inferior officers in the vessel, bound to carry out the
orders of the captain It was true they were only bound
to carry out those orders so long as they were legal ; but,
at the same time, it was not easy for them to discriminate
as to'the exact amount of punishment which might legally
be inflicted upon a disobedient or negligent seaman. The
captain was, therefore, primarily responsible, and with
many of the acts which were relied upon as concurring to
cause the death of the deceased the first and second metes
had nothing whatever to do. He dwelt upon the fact
that the medical men did not venture to affirm that death
would hare been calved by anything short of an accumu-
lation of all the acts alleged to have been committed. This
being the case, he contended that it was not possible to
hold the prisoners he represented guilty of causing the
death. Mr. Attorney-General Bliss replied on the part of
the Crown. His Lordship summed up at considerable
length. He impressed on the jury that it was of the ut-
most importance if they believed that all those cruelties
took place, and that they were the cause of the death of
the deceased, that they should say so boldly and so consci-
entiously, no matter what the consequences of their verdict
might be ; and he hoped that the time would never
conic when a British jury would shrink from
the discha'ge of their duty. He remarked
the men shipped at distant ports were not always
the best seamen or the best elm-alters, and therefore it
became the duty of the jury to examine carefully into the
whole case as lai i before them, His Lordship occupied
upwards of an hour and a half in the delivery of his charge.
The jury retired to consider their verdict at twenty-five
minutes to ten o'clock, and returned at half-past ten o'clock;
and in reply to the question if they had agreed to a verdice
the Foreman said that they found the death of the deceased
was the result of the cruelties ibflicted on him by the pri.
sonere, but they wished his Lordship's direction as to the
degree of homicide that implied. His Loidship replied,
what he stated before that if, as reasonable men,
they must have anticipated the death cf the
deceased as the consequences of their treatment,
the jury would then find a verdict of murder; but if,
as reasonable men they could not anticipate that their
conduct would have that effect, then it Would be man-
slaughter. The jury again retired, and in about ten
minutes returned and handed in a verdict of h Guilty of
murder" against each of the prisoners. They accom-
panied the verdict with a recommendation to mercy. His
Lordship then put on the black cap, and proceeded to pass
sentence. He said—Henry Rogers, William Miles, and
Charles E ;ward Seymour, you have been respectively
found guilty of the crime of murder. After a most patient,
and, I am sure, a most anxious and impartial inquiry on
the part of the jury who have tried you, they have come
to the conclusion that the evidence warrants that charge.
It is a case that required the greatest attention on the part
both of the judge and jury; and no one w he heard the account
of your barbarous treatment as it was detailed here, hour
after hour, but was convine :d that if that evidence could
be relied on, your lives would be forfeited. It is of the
utmost importance in a maritime country like this, that
the power with which you are armed to repress insubor-
dination on board your ships, should not be accompanied
with too great severity, and the law should watch most
carefully that that power is not too much extended. The
jury have recommended you to mercy, with that I have no
power to interfere, but as is my duty shall rater the r ecam•
mendation to the autbor:ties of the coantry—ll-r 'Alaj -sty's
Ministers. Whether it will be attended with success I
cannot say, but I implore you to make the best use of your
time, and not rely upon it. Nothing now remains for me
than to pass the final sentence of the law. His Lerdsbia
th-n passed sentence of death in the usual form on the
prisoners, and appeare3 much moved in doing so.
The prisoners lefr the dock with a firm and light step,
as in a bravado. [the sentence was received by a very
large crowd who were gathered in St. George's lia'l
awaiting the result of the trial, with loud cheering. His
Lordship and all in Court were much astonished at this
demonstration of popular feeling.]

SENTENCES.

The following prisoners were sentenced by his Lord
ship :

Charier G. Allen and John Mackenzie, convicted, on
Tuesday, of assault and robbery on board the Sea Ktng,
in the Waterloo DJek, had sentence of death recorded
against them. _ _

-John CO; convicted of unlawfully wounding his wife,
was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with
hard hbour.

Moses Woodward and James Woodward, convicted of
manslaughter, at Neston, were sentenced respectively to
eighteen months and twelve months' imprisonment, with
hard 11,bour.

Luke Burns, convicted of manslaughter at Manchester,
was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
Thomas Howard, convicted of stabbing at Wigan, was
sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
Michael Spencer, who pleaded guilty to a charge of
h)rse stealing at Eccleston, was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment, with hard labour.

NISI PRIUS COURT.
BEFORE MR. BARON CIIANNELL.

His Lordship took his seat on the bench this morning
at nine o'click.

MII
YITENV V. COWLV.Y.—Tbis was an undefended action,
brought to recover the amount of a bill of exchange, and
a verdict was given for the plaittiff.
PILE V. GIEPEL.— T:113 was an action brought to recover
a certain amount, for the repairs done to a ship. Mr.
Atherton, with whom was Mr. Unthatik, were for the
plaintiff. and Mr. Manesty, with whom was Mr. Brett,
were for the defendant. In this ca-e Mr. Pile, a ship-
builder, living at Hartlepool, was the plaintiff. and Mr.
Giepel, a shipowner, of the same port, was the defendant.
It appeared that in the month of September of the last
year, the defendant and a person named Drysdale, then
the joint-owners of the ship Britannia, called upon the
plaintiff, and told him that they were going to send a ship
to his docks to be repaired. They did do so, and the ship
was accordingly repaired, and the bill was upwards of
£5OO. The account was sent in to Mr. Drysdale, who I
gave a bill for tie amount, bat that bill Wig) dials:MO=4d.