The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-30 00:00:00

EVENING, SEPTEMBER 80, 1852.

THE PAUPERS FROM. ST. MARTIN'S—
DISTURBANCES on BOARD the CALCUTTA.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 29.—The Calcutta, 700 tons,
belonging to Messrs. Fox' Sons, and Co., of Ply-
mouth, which left London last week, with a number
of paupers from the parish of St. Martin for Australia,
arrived in the Sound on Friday last; and on Monday
one of the paupers, named 'Adam Young, made a
complaint to the Plymouth bench of magistrates
against the master of the ship.
Mr. Phillips (the magistrate's clerk) asked Young
if he were the same man who was given into custody
by the captain on Saturday ?
Young said he was the same man; be was given
into custody for something he knew nothing of. He
merely went to the captain and asked his permission to
go ashore, on which he said that as soon as he got on
shore he would have him apprehended by the police.
He then inquired of the captain his reasons for saying
so ; the reply to which was, " that if he stood there
aggravating him he should get a brace of pistols and
settle him at Once."

Mr. Phillips asked whether there was any person
belonging to the ship present?
Mr. fieslop rose and said, the applicants and a
number of other paupers were in this ship on their
way to Australia. He was an officer employed by
the board of guardians of St. Martin's, who had sent
out these paupers, and his duty ended when the ship
sailed for her destination. He knew nothing of the
disagreements which had taken place between the
captain and the paupers, but he believed there were
warrants issued for the apprehension of the applicant's
brother, who was present, and another brother, who
was on hoard.
Mr. Phillips desired that one of the firm of Fox,
Sons, and Co. should be sent for, these gentlemen
being the owners of the vessel.
The case was ordered to stand adjourned for a few
minutes until the arrival of the agents ; but before a
quarter of an hour had elapsed, Mr. Allen, the master,
came in with two constables from Saltasb, and they
took Adam Young into custody.
The Mayor then requested the captain to stand
in answer to his Worship, said that
he,ad been guilty of gross mutinous con-
Adarn forward,
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con-
duct on board the ship, and that his two brothers,
Charles and Henry, had been guilty of mutinous con-
duct in a secondary degree. The disturbances they
had created amongst the passengers was of a most
disgraceful description, and he was really afraid of
his life.

Henry Young said the Captain inquired on Satur-
day,``\here are the Youngs ?" and when be came up
it him, he asked him permission to go ashore. The
captain replied, that as soon as he got on shore he
should give him into custody.
The Captain said his charge against the men was
the mutiny, by threatening to throw bins overboard and
set h
on fire.
Mr.e Phillips s
said the bench could have dealt with
the whole of the charges, but inasmuch as two of the
cases were to be heard at Saltash, he thought they
had better be all heard there.
The Captain said that would be the best course to
pursue. He thought it right, however, to tell their
Worships that when he called these men aft, they said
" they would be - if they would allow of their
people (the paupers) to go aft to hear any - Mu-
tiny Act read."
Henry Young said the whole of the disturbance
had arisen in consequence of one of the ship's corn,pany breaking into the cargo, making one of the
single women drunk, &c. He (the captain), on hear-
ing it, brought up a brace of pistols before the young
woman, and threatened to blow out the brains of the
first person who interfered with him.
The Mayor recommended the parties to proceed to
Saltash, and have the case decided, on which they
left the court.

returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had
died from accidental concussion of the brain from a
fall while in a state of intoxication ; but Mr. Elliott,
feeling that the evidence established a clear case of
manslaughter against the accused, examined the wit-
nesses with considerable minuteness.

The first witness called was George Mitchell, a
tailor, residing at 22, Broad-street, Lambeth, who in
his evidence on a former day said that between the
hours of twelve and one o'clock on the night of Sa-
turday the 18th instant, he heard the prisoner and
the deceased have some words in their room, which
was just over that which witness and his wife occu-
pied, and immediately after heard a heavy fall on the
floor. A perfect silence continued for about ten
minutes or a quarter of an hour, and then he heard
the prisoner put on his shoes and come down stairs.
On reaching the first landing, and just opposite his
(witness's) room door, he heard the prisoner say,
Who is here," or " who the devil's here," and then
return up stairs. lie came back to the landing with
a light, and witness then heard him say, " Oh, its
you is it; drunk as usual." The prisoner then knocked
at the door, and asked him if he was awake, and on
answering him in the affirmative, he said, "My old
woman doesn't seem to have any strength in her
limbs." Witness then got up and assisted the deceased
up stairs and placed her on the bed, when they fuund
she was dead.

Mr. ELLIOTT—What did the fall on the floor ap.
pear to you like ? Witness—Like a person falling
on the floor, and I had no duubt that the deceased it
was that fell.

Mr. ELLIOTT—Had the deceased fallen down stairs
to the landing where she was found, do you think
you must have heard her ? Witness—Certainly I
should your Worship.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Had you heard any person come
down stairs from the time of the fall until you were
called by the prisoner but the prisoner himself?
Witness—l did not, Sir.

Mr. ELLIOTT—Had any other person come down,
do you think you must have heard them ? Witness
—Certainly.
Margaret Mitchell, the wife of the last witness
said that on the night i❑ question, while in bed with
her husband, sbe heard the deceased, who was intoxi-
cated at the time, and the prisoner abuse each other,
and making use of strong and vile language to one
another. She particularly heard the deceased call the
prisoner a " b—y thief " several times, and" from
their voices the witness judged that the prisoner was
in bed at the time, and the deemed sitting at the
fire. She next heard a noise as if some one was
going across the room, and presently something fell
heavily on the floor. She next heard deceased in a
faint voice say, " Oh, Dick, I shan't be your nurse."
A dead silence followed, and a feeling passed over her
mind at the time that something serious had hap-
pened, and she expressed a hope to her husband that
the prisoner had not done the deceased any mischief.
The remaining part of the witness's testimony was:a
mere corroboration of her husband's evidence.

Sarah Deacon said she occupied a room on the
ground-floor of the house 22, Broad-street, and on
the night in question heard a heavy fall, and had no
doubt it was in the prisoner's room. Heard no-
thing more until she was called by Mrs. Mitchell,
and then saw the deceased in her own room quite
dead.

Sarah Elizabeth Phillips said that on Sunday, the
19th inst., she was called in, and examined the body
of the deceasad. She found marks of bruises all down
the back and over the right shoulder, and continued
to the right ear. There were bruises also on the lef
shin and right instep.

Mr. Thompson, the surgeon, in his examination,
said that on opening the head of the deceased he found
a considerable extravasation of blood beneath the in-
teguments corresponding with the external bruises,
and he had no doubt the deceased died from concus-
sion of the brain produced by a blow or fall. The
deceased had all the appearance of a habitual
drunkard, and her system was altogether unhealthy.
She was rather thin and tall, and from the external
bruises on her head he was of opinion that consider-
able violence had been used to her- The appearances,
however, would have been produced by a fall as well
as a blow.

Sergeant Otley said that, on his way to the sta-
tion-house, the prisoner said that it was a hard thing
to work all the week and the wife to spend the money.
The prisoner, after receiving the usual caution, in
reply to the charge, said that he found the deceased
on the landing when going down stairs, and that it
appeared to him that she had been sitting on the
bottom stair and pitched forward. Oa going down
stairs he kicked against her, and did not know what
it was; but on getting a light he fbund it to be his
wife. He tried to lift her up, but found that she had
lost the use of her limbs, and then called to Mitchell
for assistance.

Mr. ELLIOTT told him he should send him before a
jury to take his trial on a charge of manslaughter,
and bound over the witnesses in the usual way to
prosecute.

perienced in that quarter to the progress of a sound
and hellthy improvement in the trade.—Aris's Bir-
mingham Gazette.

COU It T OF AL DERMLN.

Yesterday a Court was held, according to annual
custom, for the purpose of participating with the
Livery assembled in common-hall in the election of a
Lord Mayor for the ensuing year.