The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

te prisoner.

alaWitllly 7
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to having, at Waxrington, unlawfully
wounded William Holcroft. The prisoner was strongly
recommended to the merciful consideration of the court,
and he had received a good character. He was sentenced
to six weeks' imprisonment without hard labour.—John
Delap, 36, was indicted for having, at Liverpool, on the
30th of May, feloniously stabbed and wounded Ann Bar-
low, with intent to kill and murder her. The prosecutor
in this r2ce did !lA+ win Ira

ognisances

lie was found

wounding with int
tence deferred.

evous bodily har

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SACRILEG

—Josiah Crook was indicted for having,
29th July, broken and entered the

at Middleton, on th

and one pewte:

), the property of the chnrchwar-

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Imprison-

STEALING GLASEL—Benjamin_ Lithm

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pleaded guilty
property of his

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John Gorton_ pleaded

out of a hoi

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ienry Boothman was
m the 10th of Deeem-

toted for having,
r, 1852, in the d

se of John Hilton, stolen
£l7O 175., and for having- in the said dwelling-house, by
menaces and threats, put Elizabeth Hilton in bodily fear.
The prisoner was found no guilty.

SATURDAY

CHARGE OF MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.

William Henderson Homer, 33, and Thomas Chadder.
ton, 33, were indicted for having, on the 4th March last,
on the high seas, feloniously murdered one Manuel
Gonsales. They were further charged with having, on the
23d March last, on the high seas, feloniously murdered
one Henry Foster ; and further with having, on the 29th
March last, on the high seas, feloniously murdered one
Pedro, otherwise called Angelo Paraiso. The third indict-
ment was proceeded with first.

Mr. Blair

peared for the prosecution, assisted by Mr.

Conway

Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Aspinall appeared for
Horner, and Mr. Tindal Atkinson for Chadderton.
The prisoner Horner was the captain of a vessel called
the Mangerstein, which sailed from Singapore in Novem-
ber, 3853, for Liverpool. Of the original crew which the
vessel had when she quitted Liverpool on her voyage to
China and the islands, only the first-mate, the steward,
and a boy, named Goodridge, were on board when the
vessel sailed from Singapore, the remaining eight seamen
being natives of Manilla. In such cases there was gene-
rally shipped a "gunner," whose duty it was to communi-
cate the orders of the captain to the foreigners. There
was no gunner, however, on board this vessel. The ineffi-
ciency of the crew, and their ignorance of the English
language, no dozibt, by tending constantly to irritate the
captain, led to the cruelties afterwards perpetrated upon
Angelo Paraiso. Some time after they left Singapore, the
men were treated kins'lly ; but, five or six weeks afterwards,
a series of great cruelties were commenced upon the per-
son of Paraiso on the fart of the mate and the captain.
To some extent, more or k'ss, it would be found that the
mate was acting in many nstances under the orders of
the captain, and it would be for the jury to decide
how far this would justify ,the mate's acts. Among
other inflictions put upon Parciso, the captain stopped
his allowance, from time to time, by way of punishment
for inefficiency, and he said to a per,
Ron named Evans, the
steward, that he was going to starve h,;m for the purpose of
making him work. The result of ti:te ill-treatment of
Pedro, and of the frequent stoppage of food, was to
increase his inefficiency, and he became Ko weak previous
to his death, that he was not able to dischacge his duties
about the ship in the same way as he did when he first
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