New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-14
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS DIFFICULTY lS
before IOmnllsslODcT MOKION.
GIL Il. q A III A


Edward Barney, engineer of the steamboat Thomas
Hunt was arrested and examined under section IL Of
the act of Congress of 1851 charge of having by
of pin inserted in the stick, INSTRUCTED the
working Of the steam gauge, by which a false view
was presented of the real state of the quantity of
steam which the boat carrying, she having at the
time As inches, when her engine was allowed to carry
but 40 and the appearance of the gauge also less
than latter the object of the engineer II is alleged,
having been to deceive the passengers.
Irving A. Jones and another fireman testified TO
having been surprised at the apparent difficulty Ia get
ting up sufficient steam; they took the pin from the
stick of gauge and tied string to the stick, when it
went down six inches below the top of the gauge.
The engineer acknowledged that he had done it to
conceal the true state of the quantity of steam. The
witnesses said they the same thing the next day,
and at the same time the boiler was leaking badly;
and the engineer also gave them directions as to
weights on the saety-valve. On the other hand, II
was concnded that the steam had never been raised
over 800. The Commissioner held the defendant to
answer, placing the bail at $780, The penalty for OBJ
sfructing the sieam-gauge if proven, is fine of 5000,
and imprisonment may be added by the Court
ALLEGED SLAYER MARY JANE PECK.
Manuel Ecbeveria, arrested on a charge of having
fitted out the above vessel SLAYER for the Coast OF
Africa was further examined. Ii was sho wn that Mr.
f. has been in business in this City seven to ten years
as a commission merchant, his establishment being at
No. III Pearl-st. He has business connections in
Cuba and received letter Though Mr. Marco and
MI NJ Ciscarretti al Havana, introducing j. Berez,
and directing Mr. L. to purchase vessel and cargo
and place them under direction OF Mr.. BcreZ Inc lat
ter did not say for what purpose the vessel was wanted
Mr.. T.. received, i'll drafts on different mercantile
houses. SIC 0O0 and also 2l4 doubloOns. He pur-
chased the Mary Jane Peck and cargo, on the war
rants of Capt. Davis, who usually signed the bills
rThe NJ. j. p. was taken by British cruiser on the
Coast of Africa and ultimately destroyedl Ii is
tended that Mr. +. had nothing whatever TO do with
the shipping of the men, clearing the vessel at the
Custom-Houso, anything else in regard to her being
fitted out, merely acting as a commission merchant.
To be continued
CHARGE UNDER sLAyE-TRADE LAW AS TO AFRICAN
Jeronmo Hermes, arrested on a charge of bringing
into this port a black boy lad from the Coast of
Africa with view of making him slave and after
ward attempting to sell him at Wilmington, n. c.,
continued-Offcer Miller having since last exam-
nation been dispatched to Wilmington for some wit
nesses TO whom Capt Finnegan, the complainant, said
Mr.. H. had offered the lad for sale, and accompanied
| them TO this City.
Messrs. Pierce, Harris and others testified that the
vessel of which MIR. III. was charterer and Capt. f.
master, arrived there from New-York with view of
taking a cargo of lumber TO Lisbon Mr.. Hermes did
offer TO sell the lad TO them, but that Capt. Fnne
gan did 1t was also shown that the boy was on the
ships books as cabinboy and that Mr.. Hermes told
the boy at Wilmington that he was then in place
where they might get him away and make slave Of
him; that he FREE then and TO look out for himself
Ii was also shown that Mr.. Ii. in NewYork stated
that the lad free and the boy considered it, aud
so stated now before the Commissioner.
Ii was also shown that some difficulty afterward
occurred between Mr.. Hermes and Capt. F., aud Mr..
H. and the boy returned to NewYork. After the ves-
sell return from Lisbon, and she was about getting
ready again for sea- Mr.. Hermes having again char
tered her. Capt +. discharged from the command,
and he made threat, II was said by clerk of the
owner tina; he would prefer this complaint and detain
the vessel.
The complaint was dismissed, and Mr.. II. dis
charged.
Before Commissioner SIILwELL.
CHARGE or sEcRKrING AND OBTAINING LETTER.
j. Perry, charged above, as already stated as re-
lated to letter addressed to young WON an, was
amined. II appeared that after the issuing of process
the letter given up and found 10 be unopened and
the draft which had been noticed closed safely in
II. The complaint was dismissed. The law Furnishes
the detention desgneGly of letter although not with
sview TO open IL The matter however in the present
case was not pressed.
BROOKLYN COURT OF GENERAL sEssIoNs-JuLY Is
Hess Wheeler alias Zadock Wheeler, was arraigned
indictment for robbery in the first degree in de-
frauding Jerseyman out Of 5000 at Greenwood Gene
tery months since, by means of the patent safe
swindle. He pleaded Not Guilty.
A lad named Patrick Mckenna was placed on trial
on on indictment for robbery IN the first degree in
snatchng a watch worth 800 frog the hands of an
other boy named Michael Doyle, ~ the sd Of May
last. Doyle and Q companion named VIM. A. Per
Mn, il appears, stole the watch from a named
Cbas. Armbrster in the Eastern District. On return
ing home they met McKenna on Flushing-av. and he
took il from DOYLE in whose possession il then
The Jury acquitted Mckenna on the Indictment for
robbery, when he was placed on trial on indict-
mont for receiving stolen goods and was convicted.
Sentence was reserved
Owen Powell convicted of assault and battery
upon William Heavy whereby the latter lost the use
OF one Of his eyes sentenced TO the Penitentary
Tor three mouths He has already been in jail about