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Ch ARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO EXCITE

MUTINY.

•
At _the Police-office, Sunderland, on Christmas-
day, before G. S. Rauson, Esq., the mayor, Thos.
Johnson, alias William Barker, deicribed as an
American seaman, was charged by Mr. Gifford
(superintendent of police), with writing a letter on
Wednesday, December 23, to the soldiers of the
9thigegiment, stationed in the barracks at Sunder-
land, for the purpose of being circulated amongst
the soldiers, and thereby excite them to mutiny.
It appeared, from the ev deuce adduced, that
one of the solders, named John Kenney, a private
in the reg mont, was passing near Paddy's Goese,
in the Lew-street, on Wednesday evening last, and
met the prisioner, who entercd into conversation
with him. He then gave Kenney a letter, and
asked hits to give it to one of the corporals. The
letter was sealed up, but not directed to anyone.
The prisoner told Kenney he would be in waiting
in front of the Sailors' Home on the followele
evening, and would then expect an answer to his
lette. When Kenney arrived at the barracks he
handed the letter to Corporal Blanchfield, by whom
it was given to Colour-serge ant Daeby, who, on
seeing the serious nature of ifs conteets, immedi-
ately laid it before the commanding officer, Major
Bethune; and he- having iriquird how it had got
into the barracks, thought it his duty at once to
take it to the mayor, and consult with him how the
writer should be apprehended and dealt with. The
following are portions of the letter referred to, and
which was read to the court
" Sunderland, Dec;-23, 1857.
. ""Soldiers !se-The day, the vezthotir,Vas arrived,
.at which your connityettust beecoiner2o,--republic or
go back to a despotism ; and I have every reason
to believe that all the people sincerely desire a com-
plete change of government, but through the damn-
able policy of those Garman bastards and petted
tyrants they are setting class against class and man
against man, and cannot attaintheir liberty without
your example and assistance. Your example that
shall fire the rest of the army, arouse all the people,
and set your country at once and for ever free I Is
there not something nobler in the bare idea of such
a thing, than throwing your time and life away to
a government that has soil the liberties of Europe,
as it has sold the rights of its ownpoor and oppressed
citizens, your lives, and those of your relations ?
I now take upon myself that responsibility,
and make the following proposals to you :—To-
morrownight, at 10 o'clock, I will beat thebarracks,
when you shall disarm and secure your officers and
appoint oth,retsloFrvilst7;pllfkers
itxim the ranks, and follow me from
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should be written slid delivered to prisoner by
Kenney, at the time and place appointed to receive
the answer :—" In answer to yours of yesterday,
we, the soldiers of the 9th, are prepared to do our
duty." Accordingly Kenney, accompanied by Mr.
Gifford and some of the police in plain clothes, went
to the front of the Sailors' Home. The p:isoner
was there. Kenney went up to him, and gave him
the reply. After a short conversation they parted,
and Mr. Gifford went up to and secured the man.
He had the letter in his hand, which was all crumpled
up, and it had to be forced from him. On being
asked his name, he said it was William Barker, and
that he lodged at No. 25, in the Sailors' Home :
" but (said he, handing over a key) you will find
nothing there." lie then said, " I see I have gone
too fir, hut will answer no more questions." When
they arrived at the police station lie was asked by Mr
Gifford what he intended to do to the officers of the
regiment if they resisted ; he said, "tomurder them
if 'they did." The prisoner's room was afterwards
searched, when two small bottles having a smell of
laudanum, and which were labelled "Laudanum
—Poison," and some fragments of a broken bottle,
were found. The prisoner said he had boeght the
laudanum at different shops until he got a bottle
full, when he took it all at a draught, and that if it
had not made him sick he should not have been
there that night.
Mr. Franc's, police-surgeon, said he had exa-
mined the prisoner the previous evening, and was
of opinion that his mind was unsound ; but whe,her
it arose from his taking the laudanum or from in-
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had anythiza to say, he replied, "Nothing ; I did
not say T wound murder the offieeee. I told Mr.
Gifford I had too occasion to kill the officers if the
meni would joiit rne."-
The prieonOr was then remanded until Wednes-
day.
It appearS," from questions put to the prisoner,
that he belongs to New York, that he was a sailor,
and had come to Sunderland byn "run" about a
fortnight since.
Last week he inserted a very singular advertise-
ment in a Sunderland. newspaper, stating amongst
other things that he was iu want of a "strong-
minded ambitious woman" for a wife, " who had
plenty of money, for he had none," and directing
replies to be sent to "Thomas Johnson, at the
Sailors' Home." It is very probable that he will be
sent to the Lunatic Asylum.—Manchester Guardian,

Jolla Smith, tho boatswain, deposed to seeing
the prisoner Chapman striking the second mate.
W. Hood Can and Arthur Wainwright Friend,
two of the passengers, also deposed to hearing se-
veral of the crew threaten to stab the two mates,
but they could not distinctly swear to any of the
prisoners, with the exception of Bunce, and the
witness Friend stated that on Sunday night last he
saw Bunce take out his knife and threaten to stab
the second mate. _ _ _ . . . _

Mr. Cobb then addressed the bench on behalf of
the two last named, after which,
Mr. Rathbone stated that. after the course taken
on tho past of the captain, the bench could not go
into the charge of mutiny, but it was perfectlyclear
that a very serious assault had been proved against
the prisoners Chapman and Bunce, and as regarded
thew, the bench had decided to inflict a fine of 51.
each, or i❑ default two mouths' imprisonment.
With regard to the rest of the prisoners, it was at
least also quite clear that they had behaved very
ill, and if the magistrates had had the duty im-
posed upon them of sending the case before an-
other court, he had no doubt, but what they would
all have been severely punished, for it was evident
that there had been a mutiny on board the vessel
on the part of the prisoners, and they would all
leave that court with a black character. They had
Ia very narrow escape, in consequence of the course
which hail been taken.—Liverpool

AN " ABSBNI" BANICRIJPT.-THJI DOHERTY

CASE.

THE IVAT t.-RLOO-BRIDI MURDER.

A PRETENDED CONFESSION.

COLCHESTER, MONDAY. During yesterday
some sensation was caused in this town by a rumour
that a seldi,r at the camp had confessed to having
been concerned in murdering the man whose
mangled remains were recently found in one of the
s
piers of Waterloo-bridge. It appears that a deserter
from the 66th Regiment, named Thomas Pedlar,
was brought back to the camp on Saturday evening,
and whilst in the guard-room attempted to commit
suicide by strangling himself with his neckerchief.
aaiida had the
M
He afterwards di opped some hints about having
committed some crime whieh he cared more about
than desertion ; and at last said he with two others,
murdered a man in London, and after he had been
out up and put into a carpet bag a woman took it
away and threw it over Waterloo-bridge. In reply
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of
e himtime, he i
man was not a foreigner, but a farmer, and had .
about him. He added that he did not commit the
part of the money. The circumstance was com-
municated to the borough police, and Superinten
dent Dunn had an interview with the !prisoner,
when he said it was all humbug, and he knew no
more about the murder than he had read in the
papers. The prisoner was brought up to-day at
the Borough t
-T Bench, when he made a similar re-
traction.
—e is a poor idiotic-looking, and by no
means likely, judging frora physical characteristics,
to have played a pa mein so subtle and sanguinary
a transaction. He states that he comesfrom Bristol,
but will not tell whether he has any friends, or
whom
he was employed by in that town. The
Mayor (who is a physician) expressed his belief that
the twin 8 mind was deranged. He also appeared
to wish to exchange military for civil custody, and
he said he should rather go to gaol than be sent
back to the camp. No reliance whatever has been
placed on his statement as to the murder, and he
will be handed back to the military authorities.

On Saturday the particulars of a very serious
mut ny on board ship in the Mersey occupied the
attention of the magistrates. The case was, in the
first instance, brought before the borouglt magi-
strates, at the Police-court, but the question of
jurisdiction was raised.
Mr. Wybergh and Mr. Garnett, clerks to the
magistrates, having consulted the act of parliament,
.decided that the borough magistrates had no juris-
diction in the case, the mutiny having taken place
on board ship in .the river, and that the investiga-
tion must take place before the county magistrates.
The prisoners, 27 in number, were then placed
in a van, and conveyed to the County Magistrates'
Court, in Basnett-street. Mr. Goodere, solicitor, -
who appeared on behalf of the prosecution, and Mr.
Cobb, solicitor, who defended ten of the prisoners,
shortly appeared in court, when there way only one
magistra.e on the bench, and as the nature of the
case required two, it could not proceed until the
attendance of another magistrate bad been procured.
A. first a tempt to ob‘ sin a second magistrate
failed, and the case was about to be adjourned,
when the captain of the ship, being anxious to sail
that night, a farther effort was made, and Mr. W.
Rathbone and Mr. W. Erle having taken their
seats, theprisoners were again sent for, about half.
past two o'clock, and placed in the dock.
The short facts of the case are as follows :
0 i Thursday evening the American passenger-
ship J. J. Boyd, was lying in the river, and just ts
about to leave the port for New York, %lien,- as if
by a previously arrang ,d plan, the crew broke out
in mutiny, and the passengers, amounting to
several hundreds, were frightfully alarmed by the
crew, who were running about the deck with hand-
spikes and drawn knives. So terrified were the
passengers of the ship, that two of them came
ashore iu a steam-teneler, and gave information to
the police. An inspector and about a dozen officers
proceeded ?..to the vessel, and found the crew all
armed, and stoutly rtfusing to proceed to sea. The .
decks- were crewded with passengers, who were
"running about4tV,state of the wildest alarm..
second. mate had been furiously attacked by some
of the crew, who had struck him with a handspike,
and severely lacerated his mouth. Captain
Thomas, the master of the vessel, ordered the
police to take all the seamen into custody on the
charge of mutiny, and twenty-seven were at once
put in irons, and brought on shore.
On the case being called on, the charge of mutiny •
was abandoned, in consequence of the captain
desire to get to sea, and a charge of assault only
preferred, althoughlit was quite clear that the evi-
dence was sufficiently strong to have supported the
graver charge.
William Ellis, the second mate of the ship, said
that the twenty-seven men in the dock formed part
of the crew. The ship was in the river, on the
Liverpool side. At 7 o'clock on Wednesday night -
last John Chapman, one of the prisoners, struck
him with a belaying pin. He had at the
time a knife in his hand. One of the crew was
then in irons, and David Can and Joseph S. Bunco,
two of the crew, said, " If you do not let him out
of irons, we will take him out." Witness was
knocked down insensible, and he could not say
whether he was struck or not by any of the other •
prisoners besides Chapman.
Joseph Thomas, the ohief mate, said—l saw the
prisoner Bunco draw his knife and threaten to stab
me. _ _

At another adjourned certificate meeting in the
mom of-Jointia4ittet-lopru mg:reliant 14-
verpool, yesterday,beforelMe. Ste-
venson, at the Liverpool Bankruptcy Court—Mr. . •
Deighton, barrister, who. appeared for the bank-
rupt, applied for an adjournment, sine die, on the
ground that the comments which had been made
upon the conduct of the bankrupt, the state of
public feeling with regard to his affairs, and the
recent harass of a criminalprosecution had produced
such an effect upon the bankrupt's mind that it
would be impossible for him to meet the charges
made against him in a manner which would do
justice to himself. Mr. Deighton was instructed to
say, that if these charges were fairly gone into, and
at a proper time, Mr. Doherty would be able to
meet them and answer them satisfactorily.
Mr. Aspinall (who appeared for the assignees)
said that in a case where it was impossible that the
bankrupt could obtain a certificate the plan which
had been adopted was the best to get Mr. Doherty
out of the case and avoid further publicity ; but
he (Mr. Aspinall), though giving full credit for sin-
cerity to Mr. Deighton—who doubtless had acted
according to his instructions—could not allow such
a statement and application to go without answer
and opposition. When the bankrupt was before
the court the other day he appeared in good health,
and the ingenuity with which he answered some
questions, and avoided answering others,showed the
greatest amount of mental acumen. Unsupported
by medical testimony, Mr. Aspinall contended that
the court could not grant the present application,
and applied for an immediate refusal of the certi-
ficate, observing that there were precedents for
such a course.
His Honour was not aware. of such precedents,
but thought it was quite competent for the court to
go into the question of certificate in the absence of
the b tultrupt, or even to issue a summons or war-
rant, if necessary, to secure his presence.
Mr. Aspinall denied that the bankrupt had been
harassed beyond what was necessary for tho pur-
poses of justice. His conduct had been matter of
newspaper report and criticism, but not more so
thin the charair of the case was likely to call for.
He had not in any way bean msde the victim of
pt-rgecution, as had been insinuated by his counsel.
After some further conversation it was decided
that a,, adjournment should be madefor afortnight,
medical evidence as to the exact condition of the
bankrupt to be obtained in the meantime, and pro-
duced on that occasion.