The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-20
THE JAMAICA ATROCITIES.
Horrible Revelations = Evidence of
Woman hippinK, Murder, Arson,
Theft. and WantOn Cruelty.


WOman.whippinK, Murder, Arson,
Theft, and WantOn Cruelty.
Full reports of the Jamaica investigation ap-
pear in the English journals. Witnesses have
been called to testify for and against the authorl
ties, and Governor Eyre himself has been per-
mitted to give elaborate explanations of his con-
duct, backed by evidence intended to show that
he was guilty of no eXcesses. With regard to
the case of Mr. Gordon, the evidence remains as
inconclusiyc as the report of his trial presented
it, Governor Eyre declared that, he heard
number ofreports OF his guilt, but he could not
say from whom Pressed by the commissioners
tor something more definite, he referred to the
placard calling meeting OF the poor people of
St. AIMS in July, and declared that the Every
fact of his. holding. up the Custos and Mr..
Herschell to the odium OF the public in that
placard, and their being murdered after, prove
that he was the prime mover of that insurrec-
tion.' This is all that appears against Gordon.
Thus far there Is no proof OF his compllciLy
with the rebellion, and no excuse tor his
Many of the sufferers and eye-witnesses of the
Cruelties praCtised upon others have been sum.
moned before the commissioners, and their evi-
dence reveals a series Of savage cruelties which
would disgrace a sepoy. We Gull the following
extracts from the reports OF the testimony
WOMAN WHIPPED WITH A wIREoAT,
woman named Susannah Bennett swore
positively that she had received one hundred
lashes from wire-cat. There was evidence that
cats mad been made with wire twisted in the
appointed to examine the woman's back, de-
posed that she could never have been fogged
with a military cat at all. The next day the
same woman received twenty-five lashes from a
cat, OF which the lash was soft bark.
MEN FLoGGED AND HANGED.
In Marshalls case, which forms the main
charge against Gordon Ramsay, witnesses de-
posed that as he was undergoing hogoing at
MoranJ Bay, he writhed good deal under the
punishment, and cried out 'Lord "a mercy -
which Ramsay ordered h1m fO no taken
down and hanged. A rope was put round his
neck and he was partly showed and partly
dragged towards the court house steps, One
witness described that he was dragged to the
steps ike barrel up a ships side; another that
rope was "rove" round his neck, and shat he
was "bowsed up" 1t has been deposed that
Ramsay struck one prisoner two blows in the
| face; that the same man was afterwards fogged,
| and while the punishment was being inflicted
| Ramsay asked him whether Gordon told him to
| kill. "buckra." The man said No. and Ramsay
! then ordered the soldiers 10 strike him, and re-
peatedthe question. He returned the same an
| swer and was .hogged again. Ramsay then-took
| out his pistol and threatened TO blow out his
| brains. t.i '"..'
| MORE MOUNTAINEERING. r..7
| Two special constables deposed that when the
| soldiers came up at Stony Gut, black man
| named Levison turned to run, upon which he
was shot in the shoulder by an artllleryman
! Levison, however, escaped into the bush, Hi:
| wife remained behind, and Ramsay ordered hei
| to be fogged because she would not, or could
| not fell him where Paul Boyle was. After the
| fogging, as she did not tell, Ramsay said he
4 would hang her. By his direction a rope was
I placed round her neck, and there it continued
| whole day, during which time, as the witness
| said, she looked "like a beast ready foi
! Slaughter The troops let her go on the Thurs
1 day when Mr. Ramsay went away.
| William Christie, man residing on his oWI
| property at Font HILL testified
| "When the soldiers came my father went to tht
| woods. They tied m, mothers hands on the post
I Cd tar lfa al-nd and onrnI hnn rbnr
| gave thirty Iashes was hill not far on
| counted them myself, and when 1 came IN she
| told me-"
wANTON CRUELTY BY AN OFFICER.
George and Mary Bryan told story which
attributed to British officer an act of the mos
| WantCn and shocking cruelty. Mary Bryan was
| married to negro OF the same name Ned
! Bryan, and they lived, along with her brother
J George and her brother-in-law James Bryan, al
| Long Bay, not far from Manchioneal, occupying
three ''smaE settlements" of their own. On the
| 4th of October George and Ned went to King
ston, where they remained over the llth the
| day of the outbreak, and did not return to Long
| Bay till the 10Th. On the morning OF the 10th a
detachment OF black soldiers came along the
| road. A DR.. Morris seemed to be in com
! mand. They took Ned and James Bryan
who were sitting down in the road
| Ned said:--"What have l done? I have
Just come from Kingston.Y The Doctor had 8
| pistol in his hand and said;-"No cheek Il
| you are Just from Kingston come along with me
| and will inquire about it," They went a little
| way along the road, and then DR.. Morris ordered
the two brothers to be tied TO tree face to face
| and three of the black soldiers shot them. Mary
| stood by with child in her arms and witnessed
| the execution. 81 bawled out" (cried), she said
| land one of the black soldiers said to me, 1T is
that child who has saved you this morning'n
THE CATS AGAIN.
In the evidence of magistrate at Bath, Mr.
| Kirkland. we find the following confirmation oil
the testimony concerning the use of the cats;-
"Hany were logged, about fifteen a day; only one
| man was hogRed severely, and he got forty lashes
| The people were punished in my uncle's. yard II
| Bath. There was some wire used In the cats, but
| only for the men, not for the women. No military
/ officer saw the cats. The only magistrate was my
uncle and myself He gave directions for the making
of the cats but he lett il to Bruce. saw the cats
| saw four fully. All thoe used for the men con
tanned wire. The only order Bruce got was to make
| them according to the army pattern, There were
| about four knots IN each thong Only two man
| saw were punished much; whetherfrom tenderness
OF skin or not l can't say but they bled more thar
| others. only saw one man get one hundred lashes
| He was afterwards hanged. Only one man was
| hogged before ha was sent to Morant Bay, but thai
| was mistake. There were about one hundred anC
| fifty sent down to Moiant Bay under Maroon guard
| Those aogged at Bath were let 60"
II was sought, on behalf OF Eyre, to palliatC
the atrocity OF woman-whipping by the plea tha
the women were not hogged with wire; but the
evidence given above shows that this was
falsehood. The London Daily Nelos comment
ing with inst severity uDOn the crueties proved