American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-07-27
Volume VI.


The administration Of justice will 60 on r.or. ca
we dreafn Tor one moment that there is the slinht
est chance oi ayfesting the doom OF thu condemn
ed.
There IS one thing which We would respectful,
suggest. II it be true, as the evidence states. tina
iardy had obtained fictitious papers from the Gus
tom-honse at Havana. does not the President
owe It to the United States. as well as to the civil
Iized world. to obtain an authentic statement d
the fact. and make formal representation Of i
to the Spanish authorities The Custon,-honse
officer, who Is capable of such an abuse of Office
deserves not only t" lnse his place, bnt if he sus
Ipected the purpose Of the paper, his life.
PIRACY AND MURDER.
The peculiar circumstances connected with the
case Of the Brig Crawford, which will be ,leyelop-
ed in the sequel, induced Chief Justice Narshali
to hold special term OF the Federal Court for th.,
Fifth Circuit and Eastern District Of Virginia. t.-
the trial Of the three Spaniar,le The Court was
held on the 9th inst; the most material witnesses
not being present, it was adjourned from day ,ay,
until their arrival from New York. After they
had arrived four indictments. one for Piracy, and
three for Murder, were sent to the Grand jury
who, after an examination into the testinony
returned "a true bill.'' as TO each. The hree
prisoners. viz: Pepe, otherwise caile, Jose Hllare
! 10 Casars, Couro. other lae called joseph Mai.r
2
ed in the first indictment with Piracy and in each
OF the others. with the murder Of some one of the
persons who we're slaughtered hy them The Court
was adjourned until the 10th to give the prisoners
time to prepare their defence The prisoners hav-
Ing been arragned, pleaded not guilty to all the
indictments. MIR. Stanard. District Attorney for
the United States conducted the prosecution The
Court assigned Mr. Leigh in addition to Mr.
Schmidt, who appeared as Counsel for the arraisu,
led.
Mr.. Schmidt moved for rostpnnement of the
trial, on the ground that there existed great excite.
ment against the prisoners sand that time was e-
sired to obtain evidence TO prove that the reDresen
tatons OF one OF the witnesses before the commit
ting Magistrate as to occurrences at Malarzas
ale stiictly cortect-and that the prisoners &C.
cupy such station III society As to make It impFbb
able that they would be guilty Of the Offences
charged. The Court overruled the melton.
III compliance with wish expressed hs the pr~
soncrs they were tried separately and consequent
" the testimony, being the same in each case, vas
repeated By the witnesses on the three several tr-
ais. One Of the material witnesses being unab, Il,
speak the English language. and the prisoner. ~
derstanding only the Spanish, Mr.. lphus crc~
yet acted as interpreter the two first, and DR..
Lemosey, on the last trial
In each case Mr. stannard stated, at some Icing til
the facts and circumstances he expected to be dis
Leigh who explained the duties which had de.ov-
ed upon himself and associate by the assignment
Of the Court.
Edmund Dobson, the first witness calf d, was
the MATE Of the Brig Crawford. From Iii. te,ti-
:uony We collected the following facts. ". CHI we
give, without pursuing the ore, OF his narrative,
or extending the Statement by pursuing the crn-s-
examinations that were had. The Brig Crawford
was built at Troy and registered last at Prov.
III iIpi nb., fha 81 II
Of April, for Matanzas, in the Island Of Cuba
Captain Henry Brlshtman, master, himself. mate.
and Joseph Deliver, oliver Potter, Asa ljicMn,l
Nathaniel p. Deane, and Stephen Gibbs (coIau. IL
cook,) mariners. After discEarsng thei, cargo
Natanzas. the Captain told him he expected o
have some passengers. who were foreigners. y
bout week before they sailed, Alexander ra,y
came on board and staih all night but returned to
shore the next day. But while taxing On beard
their homeward cargo, Fardy remained on board
several days. lie thinks it was about three ia
before they sailed, the prisoners Felix and C0I-
70 came on board bringing a small iron. bound hoN
said to contain money. The witness was crdee
to put il under the Capt birth, in a locker, VII ch
he accordingly did. in the presence Of Felix,
seemed satisfied with this disposition of it. From,
that time, till the vessel sailed Felix remained on
beard, during which time much Of the cargo WINS
taken in. In the course Of the testimony the his-
tory Of this box, seemed 10 have important bear
ing on The trials, and the witness was cross evan
med respecting it. He said he never Or knew
any thing Of it afterwards; and did MT tlrink thai
it could possibly have been brought from beluv
put on board the boat, and sent a-aare, wilho,l
Felix or himself knowing it. lie had understood
from the cook, who was black man. that it had
been removed-And By consent, thi, heaisay tes.
'mony was permitted to be related-and the wi,
ness sand. he was told BY the cook that Felix had
caused the box to be removed to a locker under the
cupboard, and afterwards to Felix own apartment
land that this occurred before they left the bay
Of Aatanzas Pefe came Oh board lie day be!ola
sailing The passengers being all on board. the