Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-07-27
FRIDAY, Juzy 90, 1922.

10 the mate, to come down, and gave him his word
| o honGF that he would be safe. After time, he /
dld descend, when Tardy and the three Spaniards
came around him, and Tardy questioned him about
the BOX OF money and said, that the captain had
sent the money shore at siaanzas, and that the
opan'ards had determined not to to the Unit
Ell States and have suit about it, but to seize upon
the vessel and do themselves justice. Upon their
applications the mate promised to navigate the yes
SCI they not knowing any thing about the art OF
doing So After while Doilivcr came down. ON the
spanlards calling him--and Tardy standin. at the
heln the witness Courp stab Dollivcr, and Pope
striking him on the breast he fell overheard Some
short rle AFTER Potter fell from the rigging, over
board without groan.
After day light. Pope ard Couro loaded two mus
kets, and called up from the torecaste man Beck
nelly who had been wounded--one Of them shot him. !
and he fell oyerbuard-the other fired at him in the
water, anu probably hit him, he heard the unhap-
py groan heavily. They called the Cook down,
who hid himself in the riggingand or dered him to
prepare breakfast. The witness described two of
the Spanards without shirts, hesmeared with blood,
and their bloody knives sticking 10 grdles about
their waists They went to work and DESTROYED all
the ships papers, and also throwing overheard the
| sailors clotbng-during which scene, they kept upI
a constant huzZaing. vessel was washed Of
the blood-they hauled up the dead body Of The Irish
passenger from below. and threw It oserboard.--
During the dreadful scene, the French passenger
was standing near Tardy at the helm, and sho wed
every mark Of sympathy
Tardy showed witness entire set Of Spanish
papers fur the vessel, purporting that she belong
ed TO Havana, bound BY way Of Havana to HAM
burg.
iardy said he had paid nine doultoons for them
to Spanish custom house officer. Ills plan was to
60 10 iAinburg-but witness told him Of the i,npos-
sbliity OF getting there without other mariners, and
with their small stock Of provisions on which the
determination formed to make to the nearest pert
OF the United States to take i'll hands and provsisns
they could not make st Mary's on account of con-
trary winds and Tardy would not consent to go
into Savannah o. Charleston. They then deter ain
ed to put Into the Chesapeake. The witness detail
ed all the circumstances of entering the bay-their
arrival at Old Polnt-his own escape from the YES
sci N the boat-pretty much as it has been already
detailed in the Norfolk papers,
MIR. Ferdinand Geunouhac (the French passenger,)
the next witness examined, gave in testimony,
in many respects similar to that Of Mr.. Dubson. He
said he knew nothing of the brig Crawford until he
took his passage ON board of her. Besides himself
there were six passengers and the supercargo-T Tar
dy-the three Spanards, and two men who spoke
English. He did not think he had before seen
Tardy or the Spanards to know them. The span
isl passengers told him they had $1,000 on board.
were going to New York to purchase vessel, and
deck the night Of the lst OF June. and about 2 Or
O'Clock be was reused by noise the deck. lie
found Eardy at the helm near which he lay. 1t
was dark and he could not well distinguish things
but he saw two men struggling two three yards
from him. one of them fell He did not know who
they were Pope told him afterwards it was HIM
self killing the captain but Felix insisted that he
had killes the captain. Very soon he saw man
despatcaing some with an axe, and he thought
be recognised the voice of Pepe, who afterwards
4 told him it was He saw man coming UP from
the cabin. and oae of the Spaniards stabbed him
and ne fell back into the cabin. He recognised him
to be the man who spoke English and had sore on
his leg (Which was the case, by Mr. Dobson's testi
mony, with the Irish passenger.
i Felix told him that he had killed him, and that
he thought at the time it was Robinson coming up
with gun. AT day break the witness Robin
son and the sailor in the water, and confirmed that
Dobson had said respecting them. When the man
was called down from the mast, the Spanards got
around him. Pope asked the others why they
delaying killing him. Couro replied that he wanted
to give him good and fatal blow, and not TO wound
him. HI heard the man fall from the rigging as de-
scrbed by Dobson The clothes of the Spanlards
were bloody and they threw them into the sea, as
they did most Of the clothes of the crew and pas
sengers. Three or four days afterwards, he heard
them say that the mate and cook were only taten-
ing TO be killed. Tai,ty assumed the command, and
Felix was 10 keep the books, and he also had some
little knowledge Of steering rardy showed the
witness the false papers obtained in Havana for the
vessel, ard said they cost him 25 doubloons. The
reason he gave the witne for saving his life was,
that he was bis coulryman; that he had been pi-
rate tor q at while, and never injured French
man, and should not commence then. The same
pretex was given to this witness Dobsop, Tor the
massacre, and of the ultcrior views of the party.
. He described their entering tie Chesapeake. the
alarm Of Tardy on Dobsons escaping, and cut
Ting his throat as stated in the Norfolk papers,