The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-27
ARREsr OF mUrlNEERs.

Tne mutinsersrf the ship snnlor, who arrived ct
new Bedford lasf Friday. wore taken to Boston on
saturday The Eoston JouInsl Of Monday after
noon says:
"At the sxamInation this morning before Mr..
Commissioner cushmau, the Court not being
ready to proceed, The case was continued to Wed
nesusy next. The prisoners were heavily ironed,
and we're attendedty II. A Parker, Sidney Web.
stor, Hsnry choate, aud j. n. Prince, Esqs.. as
counsel. G. L. Woodbury.. Eco, appears for the
Y nifed States. The prisoners appear anything
put the hardened viliand their crimes shows them
to be, and this morning appeared to be in the most
genial and contentSd humor"
IL will be remembered that these mutfuesrs
murdered the captain and the second and third of.
ncers OF the ship. The first officer concealed him
eeiion board for some days, and bis life spared
as ne was needed to navigate the vessel. He says:
:. After was found, was told TO steer for Cape
howe, Australia. did 80, and made the land on
sunday, January 8, 1853. n the morning, all
bands were called. and every thing on board per-
tanning to the whaling business. was thrown over
ooard All the stores, except bread and water we're
destroyed. The crew then left the ship in two
whale boats, taking everything of value they could
nnd, and landed on Ninety Mile Beach, where six
OF them left and went into the Interior the other
TWO sailed TO Twoiold Bay, where they gave them
selves out as Americfns IN the voyage from Mel.
bourne to Sydney. saspisions being excited, they
charged sss las q .s svdssss we're die
time, leading gay and reckless life. Piummer,
who called himself Capt Wilson. became quito a
ladies' man, and when arrested was on the eve Of
marriage
when the men left the ship they imposed en-
oatn en- the mate TO take tbeship TO New Zealand
hsh ne done this. there would have been much
tne elapsed for the men to look out for their
SAFETY, but of course, disregar Hug an oath thns
IMPOSED, ne bore for the nearest port He first
SNAPPED his course for Hobart Town, but meeting
vessel was advised to sail for Sydney, and did So
on MS arrival, bis story excited the deepest sym
patny, aud by the earnest efforts of the Erglsh
authorites all the men but two were arrested and
gwen over TO the American Consul for tranship-
ment W this country under the extradit0n treaty"
Two of the chief mutineera William Paine alias
John Hall, aud Cornelius Burns, have never been
arrested and are supposed to have died after tax
log to the bush in Australia. The Boston Journal
says:
What could have led the mutineers to the com
mission OF SO fearful deed does not fully appear,
out they were probably induced to i. by the ma
chinations of the seaman plummer who had once
before been engaged in similar deed. and passed
part OF MS life as an Australian bushman to which
Mode OF living he probably wished to return aud
induced the others to join him.
Ihe English authorities are spoken of by those
VINO have the charge of the case here in terms of
the warmest praise, as the case has there been
most thoroughly examined, and transmitted with
an exactness extremely anusual. An English
guard WAS sent over in the chip which brought the
mutlneers to this country. and day aud night have
the prisoners most carefully watched They are
manacled in the most heavy nanner, and have
worn the same irons ever since they left Sydney
Beside their confession, which appears to have
been gratuitously given, there is ample testimony
to convict them of the crime"