Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-10-09

at Which Mas spanish gcnjieMan named
Juan Juando.--li MAS stated ia some at
the athda,i.s, that after the capture, ihis
gentleman was e>awined respecting the
ownership oi The property, and denied
lis being spanish That Ci,inr Was al
iI.is lime, SAILING IN company with "a saaH
priva,e,r. The captain of which was
FIenchnan. and The crew mostly biz, Is
from 81. Domingo. This captain told
Iay Tor that lr would make ihc damned
Spaniaid confess the truth, and would
hang him up for ibii purpose, il Taylor
would permit, II: That i,a,ing received
Tie PERMISSION. lac did actually put rope
refund las neck, and lied Al Ia one al lac
Yards, and there I.auied the rope taui,
and checked him, until he confessed the
prope,', belonged In linn; upon Which
he MAS lei loose. and Tay Tor took posses
siou of The vessel. On the following day,
the Spai,iard sent ashore to Santa 20, and
procured ) 49, 900, for The ransom ot lis
property, which Was delivered Ia Fal Tor:
which SUN ot money tie iibeaut NON
sought Ia recover in this case.
The Judge having in The frs, instance
ordered tile defendant TO be held 10 bali,
he ROW applied TO be disciIsrgedtrom The
arrest. This application was founded on
III affidavit of The defendant himself, stat
ing that lc was born in Bermuda, Il sub
leci Ia The King of Great Britain, and had
served in The British fleet: that in 1910
he became citizen Of Buenos Ayrcs, and
Il commander in their naval scr,i ice tina,
he was i'll The United States in 1876, and
there contracted fur a vesse! 10 be ioadcs.
with naval stores, and In be delivered TO
Inn out of lie jurisdiction of The United
States; that The vessel called Tie FOuIt.i
of July was accordingly prepared, and at
STA he purchased her, changed her name
TO Pairioia, and put her under Il Buenos
Ayres commission, which had beer en-
trusted Ia lin by The Eucuos Ayrcs gov
erninrnf: thai The vessel WAS a public
arnc,l vessel, belonging To The govern
| ment Of Buenos Ayres. aud not private
property that he Was not IN any manner
, concerned with the filling ont of tie YES
sci IN Baltimore, nor with culiStingany Of
| the Grew. He avowcd making two OF The
captures which we're charged against him.
| and said that he had been prosecuted in
| Baltimore by The Spanish Consul, for the
| same causes of action. He also produced
| "A commission which had been made out
| in blank, and Was filled up with The name
| u! The vessel, and tic signatures Of " lich
we're proved by witness. The de!en-
| CANT ALSO VAN, siuNr ~ Ut
| had been a citizrn of Buenos Ayrcs, and
! had not tccn Il citizen of any other state
or country whatever.
On The part OF the Spanish consul it
was proved, ll.at the brig Fourth of July
was built, armed equipped and owned i'll
| Baltimore 10y snndry merchants of thai
place and Com. Tay Ter; that all the crew
we're enlisted there and d; Norfolk, in De
| cember, 1916, and the beginning of ia
| mary thereafter; that Taylor sailed in
| the vessel III that line from Blllim ore !;
| that wIihin HE jurisdiction of The United
| States kc hoistcd The llurnOs Ayrean flag,
| and changed Tie name OF the brig from
| HE Fourth of July 10 the Patricia pro-
ceeded Oh his cruise; made The captures
of Spanish property complained a., and
| returned 20 BALTIMORE in July, 1917, will,
| the pri.atccr, without having been at Blu
tno* Ayres at all. That after the return
OF the vessel, quantity of specie which
! they lad captured wa3 divided among
| The owners Ill Baltimore. IL Mas shcwn
| iiai the sale which had been made nj sea
was a mere sham safe; that The real ow-
| ncTs were American citIzens, during The
| whole time, and that the government of
| Bnen0s hyres had no int,rc whatever
| in The vessel. il was also established. that
| the defendant had not brcu pros cuted
| by The Spanish consul in Baitimere, and
a certified copy OF an oath made 10y Tay-
Tor, IN the CUSTOM house of Baltimore, dat
| ed April 10, 1916, was produced, in which
Iay lor s"ears, that ne as oifizeu If tie
ami the sole oMG.ou of The schr. Romp,
register. \ deposition of Veniera IL
| uulprun ura alien ,roIureH Sta;;ur I,at
lie has been engaged by Taylor, in Baitl-
! more, 10 go in The vessel TO write The log
| book, and To do all the other writing of
| the vessel that, while in Baltimore, 't'ay-
| lor employed him IN forging q nlnission
| for The brig-an0tler commission which
| Taylor had, belonging TO another vess~l,
| having been destroyed III attempting 10
| alter II with viiriOi, so that il might serve
| for HE brig Fourth Of July; thai The Wit
ness wrote his commission, another per-
| son signed il with the name OF The Su-
| premr Director 0i I,uenos Ayres, and Fay-
| Tor sealed IL with d copper seal, which he
| lad procured 10 be made in Baltimore
| and thai during The cruise herein men
| toned, the prlyatcer had no other COM
| mission iliam Ibis one which the witness
| lad fabricated.
Ire point upon which the ibcllani
| CHI tiy rrlIei was tina: lhiS vessel l,adbeen
| hiicd out in HE United States that il
Vas a violation Of lie neutrality OF this
country; itat all captures made by such
vessel vcre Illegal and void, and Tie par
lies concerned Werc ali iresspasseSs, and
ia such wcreiiable 10 be proceeded against
| in The courts of Tie Uniied States. That
although il is Il general principle Thai
whcrr II capture is made as prize, no court
but the cnugl Of The capior can enquire
into It's legally. yet that this case is at
exception 10 that rule, tie capturing yes
| sci having been euuiDDrd and fitted oui