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

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—LwzitrooL, August 19.

CROWN COURT.
Mr. Baron Watson entered the court at nire o'clock this
inorning, and proceeded with the criminal business.

MURDER ON THE HIGH

SEAS.

Henry R -gen, aged 37, master mariner ; William
Miles, aged 27, seaman ; and Charles Edward Seymour,
aged 25, seam n, were placed is the dock, charged
with having, on the 6.h June, 1857, on board a
certain &hip called the Martha Jane, then on the
high seas, feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice
aforethought, killed and murderel one Andrew Rose, a
seaman on board the vessel. The court was greatly
crowded during the hearing of this case. Mr. Attorney-
General Bliss, Q.C., Mr. E James, Q.C., and Mr. Digby
Seymour appeared on behalf of the prosecution. Mr.
Monek, Q.O , defended the prisoner Rogers. Mr. Aspinall
defended the other two prisoners. Mr. Att trney- General
Bliss stated the case for the prosecution. He said : G,n-
tlemen of the jury, the three prisoners at the bar stand
indicted for teat they feloniously, wilfully, and of their
malice aforethought killed and murdered one Andrew
Rose. Gentlemen, the prisoners committed the offence
between the 11th of May and the .sth of June in this year.
The prisoner Henry Rogers was the muter of the ship
of 'board which the offence was committed. The
e prisoner William Miles was chief mate, and the prisoner
Charles Edward Seymour was second mate of that ship.
The deceased was an able seaman on board that ship;
and the means of death were a series cf violence and out-
rages committed by the prisoners at the bar upon the
person of Andrew Box, from the 11th of May until two or
three days before his death a system of beating and
otherwise illtreating him in the manner I shell particularly
state, and finally by one eat( aordinary act of violence and
outrage, within three days after which he died. The Martha
Jane is a British ship, owned at Sunderland, and had
sailed from Hartlepool tast year to Calcutta, where there
was a chance of masters; and from Calcutta, she came on the
homeward voyage to Demerara, and after leaving Deme-
rara she p it into B rbadoes to repair, and there, there was
another change of masters, and there it was that Henry
Regers became the matter of the ship. It was also there
that a considerable change of the crew took place, and
there it was that Andrew Rase, the deceased, entered on
board the ship. He entered on the 29th of April as an
able seaman, and he signed the ship's articles, which stipu-
late among other things for a certain allowance of provi-
sions. Gentlemen, when he came on board the ship he
was first put to do some duty by the second mate, who
-Lund fault with him and who beat him; and he beat Rose
so severely that Rose was advised by some of the crew to
leave the ship, aed he accordingly ran away. He was
away from the ship for several days, bat on the 9th or 10. h
of May he was brought back by the police and he was
put in irena She vessel sailed on the 11th of May. At
that time he appears to have been released from irons, but
the day after the vessel sailed he was again beaten by
Seymour. Toe chief mate also beat him on that day with
a rope's end and a whip, and the captain also beat him on
that day. Gentlemen, from that day until the last act
which terminated in death, I believe he was beaten by
some one or other of the prisoners almost every day severely
with a whip, both when he was in irons and when he was
out of irons. Besides this there were other acts which I
shall &tail to you. 1 cannot detail them in the exact
order in which they passed, because it is difficult to get
the precise dates, but they all occurred after the sailing of
the ship on the 11th cf May, and befo e the death of the
deceased. The deceased when he came on board ship
was apparently an able seaman and in good health; but
he had his hair close cropped, and there is some reason
from that, and from his conduct, to surmise that his
intellect had been in some measure deranged. He was
fond of singing. and soon after the ship had sailed, one
morning when he was in irons he was singing, and he
ming " Oh, be Joyful." It was on Sunday morning The
captain bade him be silent, and he was silent ; bat the
captain said, "I will make you sorrowful," and he got an
iron bolt of censide- able size—he thrust it into the mouth
of the deceased, and the other two prisoners, the chief and
second mate, tied it round with some rope or yarn behind
his head, and he was kept with that gag in his mouth for
about an hour and a half. The captain had a dog on
board, and he taught the dog to bite the deceased. He
first set him on the deceased with a command to bite that
man, and afterwards, when the captain came forward with
his whip to whip the deceased, the dog would fly at him
and bite him He bit the deceased's legs and feet, and
upon some occasions the blood spouted out. Upon one
occasion he bit out a piece of flesh, and as the deceased
put out his hands to protect himself the dog bit them.
Upon another occasion, the deceased was sent aloft for
some purpose—l believe to furl a sail—and when he came
down he was sent up again. He was then naked, and as
he was sent up with a bucket of water, the chief mate on
that occasion followed line up, and with his whip he
whipped him all over his body so severely that the blood
ran from several places. Upon another occasion when the
deceased was in front, he asked to go to tho bows to do a
necessary act for himself ; and, gentlemen, I must here
mention to yon, that the deceased seems to have lab .ured
under such an infirmity as disabled him to contain his
excretions, which came from him involuntarily or uncor-
seiously, or in Eitel& meaner as ha could n et, or it might be,
would not prevent; and upon one occasion, when he was
in it one, he asked leave to g 3 forward for that purpose.
He was refused by one of the mete., upon which he
relieved himself on the deck. The mate then beat bin,
and the captain heat him, but the captain also ordered two
men to hold the dt ceased down on his back, and he called
for a spoon, but he did not use ir, but he took an iron pia
and forced the excrement of the deceased into his month_
forcing open his mouth with the iron pin—and thrust it
up his nose, saying, "is it vice," and you shall have
more cf it," until those who were called to assist shrank
away, untebl.e longer to witness the revolting scene. A day
or two after that, the same thing again occurred. Upon
another occasion the captain called the carpenter to knock
the head out of a water cask, and as the carpenter was not
quick enough, the captain and mates did it themselvse.
It was a water cask of small size; the smallest water cask
I believe on board the ship. They then breught the
deceased Rose to the auk ; they put him into it ; they
bide him crouch down ; they fastened toe cask and turned
it, and they then rolled it backwards and forwards, the
deceased being insi e, without any means of getting air
except through the bung hole, which was on the bilge.
They then lashed the water cask to the side of the ship, and
there he remained from twelve at noon till twelve at night.

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