Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-12-05
Price TwV Cents.
y. y. Circuit Court.
Present Judge Thomnson

| 800 - .; VS., me Executors of the late Henry
q, MI Prescott Hall applied to the Court
~ postpone the trial Of this ease for the
The learned gentlemen read an alEday;t from Frar
| CHS IL. Iiihou, one Of the defendants in the ease
wnlch set ,or'h that owing to the unavoidable alb.
I VI ir, d. Eating, their counsel, they
| term Of the Conrt. 'A' P'e'es'
Mr. Batter, d. A., said that fourteen months sine.
Dill OF PARTICULARS was furnished the defendants
counsel IN the ease, and that although he was ready
TO submit TO the direction of the court vet h.
thought Mr. Cuttings absence not sufficient 10 in
duce him to acquies ce in a pOstpOneme
Judge Thompson said, there were various reasons
why some indulgence should be shown in this case
The parties were sued as suretes, and also as exc
cutofs The amount sued for was also large, flour
or i've hundred thousand dollars and the Court
| ordered.
Rtcoh.-Daniel Harris snd William Reed were
pnt 70 the bar, charged, in conjuncti v it'll two
Others, viz David Wright and Richard Smith
VINO slipped out of the Tombs after their arrest by
tne narshal-wrh making revolt on board the
n. re snip Fairfield, on her voyage from Liver
poo, 10 inns port, in the month Of Septs Der las:
MT Maibury stated the case TO The Jury on the
PV:' me prosecution, and read the deposition Of
Villain Lewis Lyoa, master of the Fairfield, by
which II appeared that dispute arose in the shin
ABOUT t.e quality of the pudding served OUT 10 m.
crew. This affair was got over, and the next NOR.
nihg, whiie the watch were washing the quarter
geek, another dispute about bow who had
been struck by Harris. An attempt was then made
BY the captain and mate to fog Harris, or put him
IN IRONS On this, the captain got is pie tolls and a
PAR OF irons; but Harris recovered and ent TO tn
iorecastIe where he staid below for some days aa.
refused to do duty Thereupon mother of the crey
charged IN the Indictment also swore that he wouk
DO NO duty unless he liked, and If any man was ON
In irons, there should be open slaughter among thS
steerage passengers, of whom there were 274 o.
board.
The captains testimony was corroborated b
Alex'r Morrison and Richard Daw barr, the twc
mates, Who deposed that one occasion the can
tam was seized by the throat and dragged forward
throughout the voyage, the crew were tuIbulen
and disorderly. On their arrival at Staten Island
some Of the steerage passengers contrived to gel
thompson an shore, disguised S an Irish farmer.
Marshall Bacon appeared for the prisoner ,Har
ris, and read deposition from Of the crew
who had left The city.
George Mcpherson examined by Mr.. Bacon
Was passenger on board the ship Fairfield; the
hrst disturbance toek place on a Sunday; il arose
out OF complaint made by the crew of q deficient
allowance Of provisions. Another disturbance took
place IN consequence Of an attempt to put q man
named Thompt in irons; Harris did not int srferc
but went about advising the others do their duty
lie seemed DESTROYS Of pacifying the crew. Aftex
this, had conversation with the captain, in which
he told the witness that he had the right to shoot
the crew one by If they did not obey his orders
Mr. Trust appeared for the prisoner, Reed.
The Court briefly charged the Jury, whe found
Harris and the others all guilty.
Several undefrndsd civil cases were dispos ed Of
aud the Court adjourned to Saturday at 10 o'clock