The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

ATRCIT OP-- A Iii__ENGLISEI CAP T

AND lilS CR6IV.

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Yegt(rday, at the Poiice-court, bef tra Mr. Mate-fleltl•
a c ise un, aral.e.led fer retemit,. wads eerily investigated.
Heart: Etagere. the captain nf the ship
:Alai the Jam, of
Surderlaw, ; Charles E. Seymour, his chief mate ;-and
Wi dam Mills, his second mate, w rt charged with
having taken the life of a tailor. named A`mirew Ruse,
on the veyage between Demerara and Liverpool.
Mr. Inspector Kelpie opened the case. He said the
prishner belonged to the ship Martha Jane, of Sunder-
land. Henry Rogers w a her captain, Chee. E. Seytrietir
- her chief, awl W. Mills her second toa,e. The
c..arge aeaiest them was for causing the death of 000
Andrew Rose, who was shipped as an able seaman 00
h :ird tear vessel a: DeMerara. The vessel sailed from
that port on the 11th May, and the crew consisted of
11 al, s teettnen, of- which Ro-e, now dead, wa. one, and
besides -he had a cook, carpenter, and stewa,d It
vveuld
'seern that the Man was rattier of light into 1.-ct, and that
a' the rinse he went on nna.d lie aae suffering from dive.
ham. It seemed that he did not, on ROME) occasions, go
to the proper wetereens, t, and for this the captain beat
him most severely with a whip, and the mates also beat
him, with ropes' ends, truth his b efy became blsck and
blue, and Inc rated in several parts. It also would be
pr ved that the prisoners continued to heat him every
day front the day the vessel sailed until he-died. Before
be died, to'wever, his at Ms, kg-, feet, and other portions
rf hi' bo4y hr k. out tnta frightful heles rind running
alters. lite body was s•vellen aed bruiee.i from head to
coo by the ter ,ble Ines iufi cted on him IT the three
pris -tiers. There was a ferael g named Watch kept
on beard, and the captain fregmlitly set this dog at the
deceased, both when in arid out of irons, arid the swivel
use t to ear rho :Wills of fi:-eh from the man, and inflict
'desp.erate wounds on Lim, which bled profusely.. Wh a
the dog ebse, veil tee prieonere bee log the man, which
was at bast nice a day, it world fly at him and tear
away fl-rh, Laviog streams Of blond issuing from the
waun le. 0,, one occasion write, he wa• it, irons, it'd
could not stir more that, a yar I, he eas treated in the
most abominable manner by the cat, limn. Tee details of
!Jae p Item of !be case were siipte-eurinently disgu-ting
teat we caere,t pu lrsh them ; suffice it, h •wever, to say
that the most 'horrible fi th was forced into his mouth
site a stick he the eap,ain, the other two prismeers field-
ing his arms. His nose was stopped, and he was otherwise
1-treateet After telt be was taken exit of irans, and, by
direction of the captain, the other prisoners ueheaded a
water cask, into which he was eut by the three prison-
er.. Tee cask was then headed in the usual way, and
homed down in its pima. This was at 12 o'clock in tba
day, and he was left in that way until 12 at night, with
the bunghole upward.. After- reentieideg some further
etreci t ie., the in. pectersteiee that about two days before
the ve,‘,l at rived off Cape Clear the man was taken by
,ne of hi., ceinrale- to the .forecastle, when he got some
his tea, a, d next day he was cell d upon by the car
t iin, who gave
him what appeared to he some castor oil
and brandy. T, is did not seem 'o have any effect on
ho,, and the text day he gut a like dose. Some tint°
after, in the mousing of the same des, t',!,e man died,
an at 12 o'clock was thrown overboard, juet as he was,
most f, 'octal ,Tbetaile.

Tat. it4-ctor's statfrinent was f.tipported by the avi'
,tenee ot Wm Grove, and Win Davidson, and Francis
Doyb!, Ffratneti on board the bhip.
Mr. Snowbal. for the poisoners, cmitended that there
-wa., no, hiiig but an assault proved, and a 4 he had not
had time to meet the cimige, he would ask for a remand
bail.

Mr. Mansfield refused hail. He would order the pri-
-,onets to be kept in Bridewell, No that Dar. Snowball
Nould be near them to take their in4trtietum-4.
They were remanded sine die —Liverpool Chronicle Of
Saturday.