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London, England, 1809-06-24 00:00:00

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Prisoner was lying upon s lacier in hiseatin : he ap-1
peered as if he had been intoxicated, but he was then:
sober. He was removed to the Audacious about an
hour before the boy. The boy was removed for the
sake of being immediately under Mr. Irvin's care, and
witness attended him until his death, which took place
on the 14th November. Witnesi was present when
Mr. Irvin, three or foer days before the boy's death,
took down in writing his declaration. From the first
moment of his attendance, the boy expressed his con-
viction that he would die of the wounds ; and he ap-
peared to be under the apprehension of death when
he made the declaration.
Here Hr. Irvin was desired to produce the written
declaration to the witness, who identified it, and said
he saw the deceased, who could not write, sign it with
his mark after it had been read to him. It was then
read by the Clerk of the Court, and was to the pur-
-1 port following :
" 1, Richard Wilson, boy, aged about 13, belonging to the
transport ship the Friends, was, on the Sth of November, Isos,
I stabbed slightly in the belly with a dirk, by Captain John Surlier-
! land, in his cabin. I lifted up my shirt, and chewed him what he
had done ; but he followed me into a corner of the cabin where 1
• could not get away, and he staboed me again."
Mr. John Irvin, Surgeon of the Audacious, con-
firmed all the evidence of the preceding witness.
. Both this and the former witness were cross-exa-
mined at some length, the former by Mr. KNAPP, the
, latter by Mr. GURNEY, as to whether the wound of
the intestine had been sewed up before it was returned
,to the abdomen ? whether that was not a necessary
d•
Operation to the safety of the boy's life ? and whether
k had not been acknowledged that some accident had
Occurred id enlarging the 'orifice of the wound) for
' the purpose of returnink the intestine, which was sup.
posed to be a principal cause of the fatality. BOth
answered that the intestine was a good deal swelled
and inflamed, by exposure so long to the external air ;
drat -the wound of the intestine was so extremely-
-Small,. they conceived it unnecessary to sew it up;
that hid the wound been larger, they would have
conceived such an operation necessary ; and that they
had heard‘of cases where it' had been successful. But
to the best of their skill and judgment, under all the'
circumstances, they considered it unnecessary, in the
preset, case, and, that no accident whatever, bad pc-
curred in the operation to increase the danger from
the original wound.'
Mr.-it-Tin was asked by Mr. ICititee, whether; 'in
consequence of the agitation_ of mind. in which he
found the prisoner, he was nqt under the necessity of
• prescribing for him ; and whether the medicine he
prescribed was not of the same nature he would have
otdered for a per Son la an insane' state of mind.
Mr. Irvin answered, that he certainly found the pri-
soner in a state of fever from agitation of mind, and ,
[that the same medicine he prescribed would have been
also advisable in a state of mental derangement; but
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he saw no Such Symptom.
Eight witnesses were examined on behalf of the
prisoner ; all of whom spoke of him generally as a
humanegood4atured man ; against whom they had
never lipard before any imputation to the contrary,
Sit NAtisfaitosE summed up the evidence, and the
urter a 'very short consultation, returned their
.verdiev-mOtsilty: • .
Sir WILLIAM Scorr then, in a most feeling and im-
pressive manner, addressed the prisoner upon the enor-
mity:and cruelty of the offence of which he had been
convicted, advising him to make the best use of the
'short interval the
.offended laWs allowed him before
he Shitiird bet' riuMheie44ivich the dead, in. making his.,
.pence, repentance, with thai 'lnfinite Jul::
fiat which could alone make those allowances' for his
crime human justice•could not; and then pstssed upcn
him the.awful.sentenco of the law, which was, that he •
hohanged' on Monday next, at Execution Dock, and
body afterwards delivered to the surgeons for
sreOion: •
• The unhappy man, who has a wife and five chil-
dren, retired from the bar greatly agitated, and so
overcome as to require the support of the attendants.
He is about 40 years old.. .
At the rising of the Court,Sir WILLIAM Scow sig-
nified to the Sheriffs that thO elocution must necessa-
rily be deferred until Thursday nett, on atcount of the'
state of the tide:
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- ApretilitALDl Xiattibiet,
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• Yesterday the Sesame itannienced at `}lie Old
Bailey, before Sir -Watmuitt3oorr, President, and
Sir N4sx Goss. • ... . ‘
' • John Sider/aid stood capitally iadicted for Aril-
fur murder if William Richardsoa, boy ofttltitoeitn.
years old* on thiStit of l`rtibeti.ilst,hori board a
British: transport,sshipi natifectsthe Pliends, of 'which
the prisone!-AwasNaptain, in,theaiverTagus,and with-
in thetunadifOan.pf,the,highocours ot,Admiralty.
eieCninsroptimi Atiiintaatiulated, the case onthe
partuf thetriAtti: -"*" . `
• Arhe..fitit iiiitne)sottillid:iliff John Thompson, a
Negratillarinen; who Axing Sworn and examined, by
t}fSA!Wircl: riNSAI,, stAtedt that he was a sea-
aan on halt )Friends, in, tte. Tagus, at anchor
abdui'alidie .thllistioneon h "sth of November ;
thht Re ?lett' been, 'abut a month previously, engaged
byeherprisoner, in lisbenl. that et( the day above •
stated, the Captain and Mate were on shore, as were i
also the XWO other seamen belonging to the ship's
crew,
and Po person left on board but himself and the
deceased, a boy of 13, Who usually attended on the
pritarier. About eight o'clock in the evening, the
Captain 'came on board, and immediately went down
to his cabin, and called the deceased down to him.—
In a few minutes afterwards, the deceased came upon
deck, and told the witness to go down al which he
did. The Captain asked him,how ircould, be lip,
na,,nd to keep, watch on liia*ifcleffik iiigbt,llie Mite.
and the ,other tiko. seamen Wr en there ? The
witness Answered he could -keep watch- until twelve
e'Clock ; to which the prisoner agreed, ,desirtOg the
witness to be sure and callhim at tiadvelLxnit sp the
mean time, not to suffer any boat to come alongside,
without letting him know. He then desired witness
talc° on. :deck, and send dawn' the 'toil ;'which he
dicil2.4caboat five. minutes, twitnessdleard' the boy -
cry oth loudly to him, calling him by his tutainJack
Theithpson. The witness did not
.so down imthe. ,
diately, for he supposed the Captain only, beating
60 hilt:: 3.1. uteal. The boy continued •to *call out
sevettiL times loudly; and at last the-wit/best weer
downt. .ancksaw the Captain standing Over. the boy,•
with: a naked. dirk or dagger in hiihand„ which- be
waved' to atid.fre, 'and the boy lying on ibecabin-
floor, who immediately said to the witness, " Jack
Thompson, looirhere ; Captain Sa therland as Stab-
bed. me ; and 'immediately lifted up - his shirti and''
shweci. him a hkeet:li?%, wound upon the left side of '.
his bellY„ nearlisgroin, andhit.entrails hanging out.
Thefrisozieriald nothing at the moment. He heard
what theloy(iiiirls4 and on the. witness's turning
alt t. toleay.E.theitabin, the prisianer said to hins.:....
*I Jaelt?.lJmcir..l./aspe done wrong." The witness,
wl;O:sras, ;a ikorgt three .minutes in the cabin', 4n-
svieitiVa I kncni very 'well, you have ;" and imme-
diately relittnetrOpon, 'deck, and .hailed the nisi ship
to himildli_ch
~vo the tliraibetttrinsPettelor assis-
taring 'Vedic:fit:tante alongside, With the Mate and
twifin4a3O. ;:hersialte:witness told That had • hap-
pened. They would not venture down to the cabin,
butleetthit *itatiiit liiiitb them, andirent Orkin' hoard
theft-Obi-tenet; fdi a• surgeon, but4Caddinift. get one
there.. 'They thee reseed back to the prisoner's ves-
eel, :ad found that in the mean time ;be Mate had
come on bawd. ,The Elizabeth's men then rowedtei./.
the Audaeitituifiii a surgeon 4 but while' they were.
gone, the prisonee insisted on the witneseeptitting. '
hire. 011,- Ace e .-te). hunt for- a doctor. Witness. ae-enr...
diny AM* t4lhOre with tint... -The prisoner. went ,•
to WibaifFsirlratratekt; hill-Could obtain -no surgeon.
He walked about forzsonaleiree...._ .Witness asked him
wh lisrgild,.gp eff,ea isoard,his. ship t The
leatkijaiaf.ite44o7:l44:t_he witness.inightge.. and
a1k741411n e°64,4k, ilind,r 41.--Brit •a! Pot-.
talPitse„,„ ilic,',elinft,lpA wx,,,*. bon the-witness told.
whitzna. . iiiiiteitfct ..,..4,ll,,C,apptiu..then :came: back I
If
wiffiioi kits gs.s.tct to ship, and. nn cornier= board.
theytfdpild4lo.l two surgeons had .been there,dressed
the SitotilidiOf the &Ceased, and put him te.bed.. He
wae_removed.the next morning on board of the . Au-
dacions,,-a(*itie also the prisoner hid the witness.—
At I •
the' ire captaiiiSutherland canoe on board, after
g. '414.41 so* the surgeon, the'Mate asked him what
he *lin a o With such a weaver- ? The prisOner an- I
sweeeshliewould never hurt any body else with it ;,-- . . . .
and-el 'threw' the dirk overboard. After the wit- COURT OF ICING'S ZENCI4, )UNZ as.
new-iris:Op beard the Audacious, he. heard the pri- . GRAVES V. WATERIIOUBR. • .
songssay ,tia,the deceased he was very sorry for what In this action Rear-Admiral Graves was Plaintiff,
he had done 4 but he did not hear the deceased make and the Proprietor of .the Swan with TWO Necks,
any -aaittret• He heard him repeat his sorrow at Lad-lane, was the defendant. It was brought to tes;'
anotHef`ne....TheWitness was on board the Auda. cover the sum of £2l
.10s. 6d. . •
ciout,.*.ai'i, this,...t.roy:died in nine days afterwards. A Mr. Climb (the Attorney of Admiral. Graves),
Tike..witriess-uuderwenta long cross-examination by stated, that oh the 26th of April last he was with
Mr. icliaipiv,, bur said nothing to weaken, in the Admiral Graves, at his lodgings, No. 1, Charing-
Jr.ulleSrdereChis direct 'evicts:lie, -. .. -.' cross ; that Admiral Graves was about to leave Lon-
Mf.,..-I4eary_l3ligh,.. surgeon's • mate of the And:- don wit his family for Exeter ; that. the Admiral
dot's; was next examined, and. started, that on the-s'.h. told him be had taken a place at the Sinn with Two
November lasts. in consequence of an application to . Necks, and that the coach as it passed was to take
his ship; be went-Mk board the' Friends transpeat,be him up at his lodging. The Admiral and he were for
twee*.nute and ;en o'clock aenight. Shelay-iit,the the inest part at the window, from seven o'clock in
Tags, abeat,ll-,mile =fsotn the -Audacious„ and the. the 'eveniag until tiller eight, but no coach Snipped
like distarseefrinvlaisbou. He fetind the:haplaelow, there: Nat day the witness accompanied Adiniral
rollink. tipern-trigd, ant Itt:gteit'lvny, with.* wound'• laPives to the Swan with Two.Neclfktp. hear .what.
en thEil.ft. side of his belly, near his .krein, through ' Ml.',Watethense'fiad id' say fit excuse for the iieeeetii.
whitlitiairof .his intestines: were' Much-protruded: ns,,the witness had been previously told by 'theplain-.
One of tiftrri was penetrated tyke dirongla., and .ancs..., tiff that when he paid theeoich fire; Mt.Waterheifie
they wounded- through it On , wing ,tlw state thel had expressly agreed tuliaVe hiM*lc'ett up at lids eii,..n.
boy *as in, he..c4rectly snot-fir Mr. Irvin, the chiefnaging. When they arrived' sit'llie above-rnentioned
surgerpn of the Audacious, and in the ineantinielgad Ilan, the witness left! •Atlitiral ',Grates in .the coffee-
the boy removed :from die bed • int.!) the Captain's I,teem, and -went' by• hintself•tts speak to--the defendant,
73En, itt.d nsed every .ftleilpi to return the .protrudeda-uw:the subject, who up* ',being tolOif-die'ilispfs‘
:r.!estin.c 5 imp the 4bi10n014,.. 111) t . without effect. Mr.- t tliitt he (the: defendant) Wit liabli.to answer ill 'NV;
Irvin came on based ,Abostetwelve. The orifice of : ler laiitsitlgieet,; in.not, 'ordering-414 -Coach ;
4 to' 'o4l':*!
!le wound was. about-half an inch long, and 4,ap- I Admiral Graves!tiedgings; 'dented tifih.4,4..
reared to have been iftee with- a dirk or digger.—; Mad: ally:a/klieg/ern Iwiti'the lile/thil4l4-610it *•
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The ink itinel: aae-aiigl:i.ci: have been perforated bj• a t ' Oit;thil the .'witness ;tilled' the Ailiiiiial in, and
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?harp-paintedinsitument. ~Icieni tonvidnicesiaribt: his ask defenthentil.vtietlier he: had 'not eta
Moths urgeoneto ealargethe orifice, witlannt which it; to Cake hint (the .Admiral)•upoir Nes:l hit ledgitrgt,';
was 'impassible. to Teturn the intestines'. This they ~Charing.thoss, the defendint then Co*Ped'that he hod
ad, and 4,,,,,r,,,..4...qp the external wound,' put on a agreed-to make. his coach step. at Charing-cross,- bif;
d'essiOl,:R4theltirin bed, after-letting some blood, still :denied. havingheen eblti• tile ittirnbei:. of the Ad-
-ehen they mettene.clu the Audacious ;
sand ne;t morn- ''miral!s lodging:'. He -alloy itatid, 'that' tfiTeAleil on
ing at otrie,lCpeitt-ror the boy, and hadhim removed ' thnevigaing the Admiral Was to haveliff tthrinatthe
on bo..frd 'tbe''Aaistagleus. 'He had asked the Captain %matt:ter Coffee-hottieFriec.adilly, where the coach
now he came to stab the boy ?'andrile antwered,.that:•itakeit some step, brit findin:the Coach- gone he went
!le had done it while in a drunken-fir, and said, bp Atthe gwan:with:•TWO. Necks,• and
.ilpirra his • repro-
should throvichialtk*undee the Mercy:atilt witneies 3 pining_ to the..-Clerk: thd:disittptiiinttneiitT Ad'lniral
hands. - Vary 3We-conversation .pissed. Vrntnehit-'-'Grav .tracletrattAkit,ll the-derir said ii .iirai.owng to
asked) ionran mom. q itestions' ; - bet the pYitqner ittit : Mr. • aterlimise 4otlig tone4FrOvhr, -,ildtAdecting
'') witngth. ~heir herd _lit sheut-i.snve. the lieyllllk • iliti atilt oriler fa the 7ctiticlilii: Itriprliftitat4
1
-I'll theridyy-brshottld 'save his own (.thepedidnittosy 'ffds:., but that he would keep the book open
, until
Tii;s ..eas tie anorsistgaftanifie satnialct eastivititrrhi.lllllEiral Graves could speak to Mr:Waterhouse, and

The Coen was thee p.djettraeLl tq Taft Joy, July 4.