The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-10-10

PIRACY AND MURDER !

On Thursday evening about ten o'clock,
Mr.. Dunlap, United States District Attor-
ney, received information that two sailors
who arrived in this city about ten days ago,
and took up lodgings in Ann street, had
thrown out sundry hints against each other
which, combined with the fact that each
bad several hundred dollars in his possess
sion, excited fearful aFprehensions that
they had been engaged in some neiarious
and bloody transactions. Measures were
promptly taken by the District Attorney to
secure their persons. and cause them to he
brought before His Honor Judge Davis, on
Friday morning last, for examination.
Upon their arrest, they gave their names
rs Joachim Antonio, and Joachim Silva, and
stated that they arrived at this port on Sun
day, the 22'l Of September last, in the brig
Sarah Louisa, from Point Petre, Guada-
loupe.
The account given by Antonio SYLVIA to
the District Attorney was us follows that
he and his comrade were two o. the crew
of the Portuguese brig Ell Triumpho (Tri-
umph) that sailed about two months ago
from the port of Para, in Brazil, bound to
the Western Islands and Lisbon-that the
vessel had on board $4,000 in specie, and
a valuable cargo that there were five pas
sengers and two children, one white and
the other black, each about Is months old
that the passengers were lawyer and his
wife by the name of Marie, a Portuguese
supercargo 10y the name of Justine. a black
woman the mother of the black child. and a
Portuguese merchant named joaquin Law.
renee, the father OF the white child-that
about fortnight alter they sailed, the crew
took forcble possession of the vessel, muir
dered the captain and one of the crew, and
all the passengers except the two women
and the while child-that they kept the two
women about week, forced them to sub
nit to their horrid embraces during that
time, and then cut their Threats and threw
them overboard-that they directed their
course TO Point Petre, Guadalupe, where
they stated that they had lost their capita in,
who had been knocked overheard by the
boom of the vessel
When questioned by Mr.. Dunlap why he
had not made known the circumstances of
the murder to the civil authorities of Point
Petre wien he arrived there, he answered
that he was afraid of his life. as the crew
had threatened to destroy any one who
should give information against them. The
vessel and cargo were sold, he said, at that
place.
The life Of the white child was saved, and
he supposed was still alive. He further
stated, they took passage from Point Petre,
in the brig Sarah and Louisa, working their
passage, but paying for their provisions.
Each Of them had about $500 in specie,
when they landed here.
Upon their examination before Judge Da-
Wis on Friday morning, Silva narrated the
same story. His companion, Joachim An
tonic, maintained sullen silence but we
understand, that he declares he was never
on board any such vessel, and, that the mon
ey in his possession is the fruit of his own
labor.
Several of the crew of the brig Sa-
rah Louisa were examined, who testified
that these two individuals came along side
the brig in the harbor Of Point Petre, and
engaging passage were brought by the brig
I to this port. One of the crew stated that
I they told him about the captains being
! Knocked overheard by the boom, but that
| they said nothing about the murder. They
were both committed to prison by Judge
! Davis, Antonio, to take his trial for piracy
and murder, and Silva, to bv used States
evidence.
|
village of Newark in Ohio, was visited by q
violent gale which passed from west tc
east, and blew in the gable end of the
Methodist Church, temporarily occupied as
school house, scattering the bricks and
tlmbers among thirty or forty children
Eight or nine of them received cuts and
bruises on the head, but fortunately none
were dangerously injured. The Presbyte-
ran Meeting House was much damaged
and what showed the extreme violence oil
the gale, two boards of considerable size
were hurled through one of the windows
and came out at another on the opposite
side OF the house A large building erect.
ed for High School was raised from its
foundation, and carried entire sixteen OF
eighteen feet. The frame of large flour
ing mill was also moved from its foundation
and new two story building entirely de.
mollshed A brewery, and many other
buildings were unroofed and otherwise in.
| jured-stables, porches and buildings
| whlIed in the blast-fences scattered trees
Frustrated, with other indications of the tire.
mendous power of the tempest.
Between five and six o'clock on Sunday
evening, we were visited by another o!
| those dreadful thunder storms peculiar to
this climate, and which exceeded in violence
any similar example of elementary conynl-
sion that we ever wtnessed-the rain de.
scended IN cataracts, and for two hours the
artillery of heaven resounded with an awful
and terrific violence, and with a proximity
to our hitherto favored town, that intimated
the probability of serious damage, which
the morning fearfnlly realized. A house at
the Artillery gate was entered by the cleo
trio fluid, the chimney Frustrated, the shin
giles on the roof and the clap-boards at the
angle ShlvereG to atoms; and the inhabt-
ants dashed in state of confusion, in every
direction. No lives were lost, though the
lightning in its passage through, broke sew
eral panes of glass. A barn near town,
containing seventy tons of hay, was con.
! sumed 20 ashes, and we regret to saw, that
respectable person at Marysburgh of tue
name of Clapp, was killed while injudicious-
| ly shelte7ing under an elm tree.
Kingston, U. C., Chron., Sept. %.
| There are two words, which, If used four
! years ago in conversation, required explanation
to at least nnety-nino in every hundred persons
who had the misfortune TO hear them spoken
we mean notification and reto. They are now
familiar as 'househoId stuff" Read the fol
| lowing from n Richmond paDer.-