Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-09-16


Fatally Torturing Sailor 1t Sea.
A telegraph dispatch briefly informed
10 day or two since, Of the convistion
ct Liverpool, and sentence of death BY
hanging, OF the master, chief, and SEQ.
ond mates OF the Martha and Jane, Of
Sutherland, England. Tho English pa.
pers approve Of tho verdict and SEN
tence, taking credit to themselves that
justice in England has not been defeated
by 'insufilclens evidence" or neglect on
tho part Of the prosecution. The Liver
pool ''Times" gives tho following sy.
nopsis Of the osse:
We have heard and read much lately
Of tho way in which seamcn are treated
10 the commercial marine. but this case
throws all Others into the shade, whether
80 regards tho brutal torture which ao-
compsnied tho extinction OF life, or
the deliberate and systematic manner 10
which it was carried out. Rose, it ap-
peared, had sbipped on board the vessel
ia April, and the work OF torture CON-
menced even before the voyage began.
lie was used 90 shamefully that he Oh.
seconded from the ship, was brought
back, placed in irOns, and from that
time until death released him from bis
suferings, the captain and the fret and
second mate Of the vessel made his tor
ture their daily sport.
sit was proved on tho trial that ho
was logged every day BY the three pris-
oners-thst large msstiff dog was sent
to worry him, which tore the flesh from
his body in largo slices, causing the
blood to flow in streams, and leaving
behind the most ghsstly wounds end ul'
cers-thss an iron belt WAS put across
his mouth, and bis hands chsined 30 .
strong bolt in the deck behind his back
that he was put into 40 empty ossk
and rolled along the dcck-that no Was
sent sloft naked to furl the ssils, add
severely beaten With rope before max.
ing the ascent-that q rope was placed
round bic neck, and he WAS raised from
tho deck to the elevation Of three feet,
where DO vas suspended for some min.
utes, and that when lowered he fell on
the deck like . dead man! Death at
length, moro charitable than his perse.
cutors, put an end to bic suferiugs,
when his body was found to be :ndsntod
with tho marks Of the rope
"Whst vitality this unhappy man
must have possessed to endure this un.
heard Of torture 90 lopg-whst . consti'
tuition nature had favored him with
which required oil this brutality to
destroy. The evidence was 90 clear and
Indispensable that the three miscreants
we're found guilty, but tho jury, for
como extraordinary obtuseness recon.
mended them to "meroy"-mercy tow.
ards the wretctes, the recital OF whose
decide makes tho blood OF every listener
and reader run cold! But Mr.. Baron
Watson, dsspite the warning, sentenced
the trio Of sufsrers to be banged BY tho
neok-s meroiful pun;shmsnt - compsr'
cd With tho brutal and cowsrdly treat
mont Of their unhappy victim"
The London Shipping List says :-"In
commenting from time to time upon
outragss committed ct see in foreign,
end especially American ships, W have
ct lssst been able to Say that in this
country aud in the merchant service
there 10 no sympathy With the perpetra'
tors. II they ere brought to trial, the
ends OF justice ere not defeated BY ssin.
sufficient evidence" or neglect on the
part Of the prosecution. The 10 The
difference 10 the administration OF Brit
ish Law, Of which W, - Enelishmen,
are not little proud"