Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-10-03
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MuRDER 40 Pa Ny.


Esq Consult of'fhe United Stctcs at Pa
termo, dated Jnle 2oM, 1917.
You will probably have read III the
newspapers, beior, this res,cl,es You, an
account ofthe piracy and uiabo'icai muir
ders committed by SIX abandoned wretch
es, about six weeks ago, on the north of
this isiand.-lt however you should
not have seen any statement OF tbs cold
blooded business, the following may
serve
These mscreants armed themselves
at NIessina, with muskets, sabres and
long knives, and proceeded to place
three or four miles distant from that
city, where they stole small row boat,
and embarked themselves. taking di-
rectiOn towards MelaZzo, 0hrty five miles
on the coast west OF Messina) near which
place, in the afternoon they took a stati-
OIL for the parposcDt seiZng unnn Il smdI
vessel, they knew To be ready 10 sail from
Messina for this place, and on board of
which they likewise knew al several pas
sengerS OIL wIoM they supposed money
might be found. Soon after the APP
proach OF tins vessel these wreiclles, APP
parently as fishermen, rowed towards her,
and al about half past seven O'clock, be-
ing WITHIN the reach OF musket shot, a
voley was fired into her. Shortly alter
they boarded her and In Il few minutes
murdered and mutlated every person on
board. Oithe murdered ere twelve mon,
one woman and one child; and of the
mutilated and left for dead were three
men aid two women. One of the twelve
men, the woman and the child were o. one
family. To the woman two alterUativ es
were offered, one of which WAS instant
death, winch she preferred. They then
searched for money and other things;
anu actually, with all this carnage before
their eyes, cooked victuals, and parioGk
OF a supper, and remained on board the
vesse! until the next morning.
In few days afterwards these same
wretches took another small vessel, ouiy
a few miles distant from this harbour,
bound to one of the Lepari Islands, and
after numbering three men, drove the re-
manning six under deck, naiied down the
matches, and bored holes for the pur-
pose of sinking her, and left her for
tunately, however, d small boy, who in
the confusion had covered himself with
one of the sails, and was not discovered
By the villains, Was able, with the assist
ance of those below, to uncover tie
hatchway, and The vessel was kept above
water until assistance was rendered liz
some fishermen.
The day after this second hatchery,
the villains landed at one OF the Kings
funny fish establishments, about Ten
miles from this city, and retreated To- the
mountains. II was impossible, however,
that such monsters should long escape
being apprehended. The orders Of his
ROYAL Higimess, The Hereditary Prince,
were prompt on the occasion and the
measures Immediately taken did away
the possibility OF their escaping from the
Island. In a few days after, four of them
were unprecedented in this city one has
since been found in Messina, and the o.
Their in a mountain, near Catanla.
The whole six were this morning ex-
posed TO the view Of the Inhabitants of
Palermo. They have confessed their
crimes, and have nothing now to wait for,
but the justice of this world, and the world
TO come"