The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-04 00:00:00

JAMAIC.I PAPERS.

KINGSTON, AUG. 3.

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With regret and horror we have to add one more to the
&sadist' catalogue of barlerroue and cruel mertlers which
have been latch committed in this island, a crime which for-
merly very seldom fell to our lot to record. On Winans'
cecina?, the anU lilt. about five o'clock, the body of J.
INI‘ Crel, Ceche:doe ir Plantation, in MillielliollC4l,Vlll9
found on the wail, not far from Iris (eau resistance, quite lite•
less,weltering in his blood, w ith his skull dreadfully tcareered
iu several places, and having other mark' of savage and fe-
rocious violence recently inflicted, and %%Welt are tripposed,
by the contused appear:sere of the wounds, to have been
given by a hoe: one fracurre of the interior portion of the
occipitit I bone MIS SU very e•tcte4ive 33 to have permitted the
escape of a 0)11441er:11de past of the brain. On the day fill-
townie an imptisttion was taken on view of the body, by
D. Patterson, Feil. a Magistrate of that parish, (the Coroner
Li ill 4 entitled by an issilispiiNition) and a respeetable Jury,
vain .1 a %filet investigation was very properly instituted, but
fri.e, welch trolling, we are eary to suss , transpired that
conl,i kale to the diseeviity rut lire pasty gent y el this most
Minim:el minder ; the Jet c !tavern, after a deliberate and
patient examination lit cvoli•siee, lints tied a verdict 40. t
lel Minster, by :t pet.iin or 110 sons 11114.1111W11." N,I act of
Mr. M'Leil. could have elven it shidow of provocation for
this most ittrocions needier. lie was exceedingly infirm,
being an invalid, mil lot tile itith v ear of his size, the greatest
part of a hicir be 114, It sided tte ;he teas a• vs 'slower,
but two datiellid rs strrsise to Istimut their father's dreadful
fate.
Since the above we feel much gratifieetion in communi-
eating to the Pnblic, that she untr.lerere 3lr. Ml...end have
'been apprehended. The cirenanrieuee which led to their
i-appreheasslon are as ((thew :
Mr. Rose, tile nephew at Mr. M'Leod, suspecting that the
Negroes Out the plantetiun were concerned, •took one of them
(a steds) into is room. and atter terestioning het. minutely
on the subject, she at kneel% enneissedl th,it ewe slaves, one
the property of Mr. G. elinot, of Portland, and the other be-
longing to Ruse Garden estete, hail perpetrated the murder,
and were at • the time secreted in the Negrueiteuscs. Oa re-
ceiving this information Mr. Rase vent to rev er al el the neigh.
• bouts requesting their assistance, arid in the afternoon rode I
out in qui...t of the miscreants. Out their way to Eeelesdown
at night, one of the servants who followed heard a reftling in
the bushes, erre observed that some person must certainly be
secreted among these. On repairing •to therapist they dis-
covered a Negro named Williaer, betengiog to • feciesitewn,
who lead been a notorious rnitaway, anti a lance in his hand,
• making uhf. In the attempt to escape he tell and was secured;
when he made a great twice, •but was immediately gaged.
A careful search was new made, and they (11,i:riveted a hot
In which they tieing' Mr Nlieroes Negro asleep, and the one
belonging to Rose Gerdes) smoking ifs pipe. 'The I.OllllCr on
awaking called to the latter for Iris CHI:133,1111i they were both
-smeared before any weapon could •he used. William are
knowkdged that he had employed tue Negroes above men_
Coned to murder his master, and that they waited O'er the op.
portotrity. On their seeetine Mr. NPLeod, it appeues thatesie I
of Melts gave the unfortunate gentleman a blow on tire fere.
bead, when he exclaimed," Oit God '" This was followed by
smother on the back of the heatewhicli brought him -from his
horse to the round. They then contemplated using their
cutlassd a, but Williesir told the runt deters suet bechop him, as
the white people, on seeing the chops, would env-hide that he
had been murdered; blot advised them to nee large stones
and wash his head well, which they eccoriliugly did. • The
body was then removed to a neigh twining guilty, audWilliam
stationed himself on the mad side, to Nonce Mr.•Kase as lee
posed by. A full confession of all the circumstances of the
murder was made, and Mr. Mistot's•Negro, a very:powerful
• nod athletic fellow, declared that-dead he bcenawakeiand poet
d olthe cutlass whet they-came to the Init,lte would have
killed all the party. In contiereseuee et the confession, other
Negroes are supposed to be concerned, and some have been
secured. Examiumtions were going on when our informant
left that quarter. Mr. Niinores Negro, en Iris way to gaol,
dropped clown and anon after expired, and it is supposed that
Ise had poisoned himself to escape the fate which awaited
Dim. Mr. Rose is entitled to the greatest praise for his per-
severance in discovering theaeurderers, said afterwards as-
sisting to scenic the miscreants.

The following inatance'of wanton depravity, degrading to
the perpetrators, and it ',miens to the character of Entomb-
men, we have received t root-respectable authority :—A boat's
crew, from a Greerttaud ship beir,etcg to this port,. landed on
Tour Island Pant last Joae, wt,..7.0 a winter house was bn.lt
fur the residence of a D.inish tr r. ly ; itr inhabitants at the

time were some distance from we piece, and the seamen
plundered the house of all it containzd brought away a butt
nearly full of seal oil, two spars, a gun, a crab and eapstern,
and a quantity of wood ; Slat! frieshtd the dCpredation by
burning the building. The bodies of several Lscrointattx,
which bad been hit Ord there, were dug op ; among twin was
carpenter, who tied beard nee of she ships in Doris's
Straits, and was b•••••••tt on the • ilane, stlt.luine 1818, and
'whose body waste pes'e . to be itlesitilied by the (Apt* in
and crew of toe slop tie uf.4.,geii li, and who had the body'
again decently interred. 'I be c,:ttin•was broken to pieces,
sod the shirt ton off with bretal • depravity Ad.
• rertiser.
Among the papers laid before' l'enliamet:t.last Session, is a
correspoudeuce•betweea •railitAtlmrst and Lient..tiorernor
Bentiocl, leeching the treatiocnit of, female %Live on a plan—
tation at Ilierhiceemainsid iner appeArs that this poor
creature had Iseen.lloszed .lay order et N 41:11..11 of colcor,
wile of the r of a pLitit.tiou,• fors .nee a'.l.,erd inr
rinnnee, 41111$ the following given by um
'reran Beotiuck of the hell' It tol•lre;fried on tier ;
t. conceive for a inniment t •,• sih•• t: ta ort rang
men with heavy cart-whips coaled, 11.1„;:i.14 .4 poor untiii In-
nate pi egnuta woman, last flat or her ars y , ‘tre.:elied on the
ground naked, ai'la tier h.aids•and frm to stokes, re •
ceiving upwards of one striver an mic aide,
and the other on the-after. every stroke estitioe deep suet
fetching blood; after which 1.110 was uk And both her fret
wade fast it, the stocks fora t • is•.aist•oi morr,ly tug with leer
wounds upon a fiat form of i..ro•-k.uoue.t.s a state of preg-
nancy, and mole of h'e friootiv• .scrwittrai• to give her any
thing to eat. r Wit) lie t,41,1.4 was on•cessury, to
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