New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-12
La " INTELLIGENCE
The AFRICAN SLAyE-TRADE.
IHc AFhIJAN 81 E-IhaUI-'
The INVESTIGATION OF THE CHARGE AGAINST
CAPTAIN }. FILLETTI ALIAS KRAFT.
Befure Cou-ss.o-.r MORTON.

THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CHARGE AGAINST
CAPTAIN }. FILLETTI, ALIAS KRAFT.
Befre Cou-ssio,.r AokroS.
The examination o, witnesses in tn. csse was con-
tinued on Friday, at NJ.
Wm. Curtis, -worn| sn counsellor At law in
the City OF Nes-fork, and vas in the year 1852
became acquainted with man named kraf 10 t1s
spriIg OF i-53 he fret called on 10 1883, ia rea-
tloD to vessel, OF which DO not nov rscolect the
name be asan called upon me IN relation ID the
schooner Advance he stated that hzf been seizsd
by Commodore Lavaette, ct Port-su Prays Cape
&c Verde; ! ascerar ed, by commuuicai on With the
Secretary OF State that he lyax NOrfk Va where
fi to tesd tSs o cIesi, Court: in Is. i..t Of M.y
lsS thri ssv Lent Sinclair in attendance there's re-
went .eecld time to Virgins; tsinI should o abe 70
asnie KAT onee su sq9sned ~ih hi. h,nd
bis voice s'o biz bands turned back that when he
rhe prisoner Is not Capt Kraft; Kraft taller unsn; his
frame NOR. eeiesey formed With very DARK j,undicsd
compiler hollow ehe.ss thin b-srd and very much
GATED these Letters which produce ns,ec in krsfts
with the entry in the Custom House book
Cross eIamiree-There Is tn, resemblance which nigh.
Lieut. T. snei.ir~i saw Krsf On The coast Of Area.
was on be .d the Germantown under csmra1re Lsvsette
saw hfrt on two oceuons one occasion saw him 10
the WHd room Of the GeInsItoEp ard observed hiu
closely Lno~s TIA. h. suspected q being engaged IN the
tiaee the prisoner Capt kIsf he hiss general
resemblance 70 him looking him In the fsee buf bic de face
..en hn cam. her. from Soais V. order
Of tbe GCvsnnsit ~ss officer Of the the Ad-
went sshor and snse5 the sqasdron for sssstanee
IN hi. Kraft Looked se Fr,nehDsn aud spoke
yer, e Errsh; ell biz except the use
to be foreigner bat srossy marked sr.nehn,u
{. krf; I observed krs particularly. but did Rot Don
Antonio.
b. Stevenson rworn-I saw Capt Flet In 1852 at San
Juan de NcGaxra where then resided merchant and
the United States Commere Agent in is59 and So nov
Of ss2 thai aw fe,ii be sss in copm.nd OF schooaer
called the An phifrits Understood che came from NewOr.
lssns had him be n: the prisoner the mani
recosnised him when I saw him ths morning
Crs %xsnired-Ths wG between February and July, 1852
not 1873.
whom NJ. Curtis has spoken; an clerk to Mr. CURTIS So
Kraft there equsnty have heard Mr. Cartiss tesmony
that msn tFlsit not ,se man sner kr.a wen, 20
ssre. In what M Curtis testified to generally.
Cro~ spos with Kraft 10 the Office
ally be did Dot spest much English; NJ Cufn eon'eIssd
With him French; only vsted him at Madame Mon
PEDRO Biard.ro sworn-In 1858 ". waiter a. Nj Mon
upf him he there about month; the prisoner
Csp ks; Kraft had hs hands turned Showing the
Cree. O Ho~ long sso is 1t since yoa Capt
s k hen . 1s'.' s;osd@.y DSa did 90,
e Ssnro to oI zee him, sre., many visited bin
John Georse simon swoyn-I the master OF schooner
ssl.d the q L Sc anton; trade down the Gulf know
Cart ri le End have Known him yesrs but not init
mstely for rre than fv- during that period ne has been
matter or ,uperc.reo vessel tracing IN the Gulf ssT
him in 1882 in New Oreat eomm.nd o. ms seaoons. Am
Jane E,s 10th trading out q that port; between Ap
50 and January 10 that port some three or four
some three or four other while 10 10 that
CosexaE Ded-I could not tx any other month bat Apn,
10 which saw him. So
the counsel the and the defence
postponed urtu next Wednesday. at 10 O'Clock D.