The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-06-18
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Eyre.
Among the Witnesses summoned for the
prpsccuti0n in tho trial ofEz-Governor Eyre
n London, was r sailor named Walter Rea,
Fhe servedUnsboerd thesWolvefine. Here
is n part of his evidence:
II won't TO Motant BAY O the 18Th ofOc-
toDer, 1865. / remember the Governor
coming the next day. He came into the
tent on thef3th of October, at night, and
hereadm artlal-law 10 us. There were about
one hundred of us in the tent, sailors and
marfnes After reading martiutlaw TO M.
he said he hoped we would do our duty.
Next day a part of us, about thirty sailors
and twenty marines, went TO FSsinoton
about thirty-eight miles of. Here Mr. elf.
fard called attention TO Mr.. Eyre's evidence
as TO mis- issuing orders for this expedition
Lieutenant Oxlycommandedus. We had
rifles and cutlasses, and forty rounds of am
mumition, Our orders were to shoot any
body we saw running Away, if we could not
catch them. These orders were obeyed in.
three places, We saw aman running behind
some bushes by the coast. Twelve men
fred and wounded him. He ran into the
sea, and lieutenantO or Conner, ofthe marines.
ran down and shot him. ID i don't think the
man was armed. He offered no resistance.
only that he tried to escape.
"Ihe next was a man who was playing a
flute outside a cottage He tried to nun
away into the bush, and one of the marines
shot al him and wounded him. Another
afterwards shot him dead. and threw, him
intoithe bush He did not offer N resis-
tance, only that he, tried to run away. /
did not hear him say anything, or call out
when he was wounded. There was another
case. Wehad caught a man, and the ma.
rines were passing him aft, when no tried to
escape into the sugar ane He had near
ly got there when one Of the marines shot
him. Lieutenant O'Connor tried To- sboot
him with q revolver, butt missed, and n SER
geant Of marines shot him. When he saw
the marine pointing at him, he cried out
Don't shoot massa. Some of the other
prisoners said they had seen him i'm m" mar
ket-place brRndishinR q sugnr-cane knife.
and melting the people TO rebel We met
no resistance on the road.
1--WE took fifty prisoner into Easington.
We found no disturbance there. We loon
holed the doors and shutters Of the Court-
House, and placed a man at each door.
The police brought the prisoners. Imoun-
ted guard twice. Lieutenant Ef1ington
and the Provost-A Marshal came there whilo
| was there, / was placed guard over some
prisoners who had been tried. One Was
condemned TO death, and Lieutenant Errinn-
- - ~ hANNhAHANh W tnNNDt VI
spoke TO any one ! WIS to run him through
or shoot him. There were three more pris-
oners there. Two men, a father and son.
The father was let of, and the son got nny
lashes. The other man was let off We
stopped at Easington four or five days. We
brought a good many prisoners back to Mo-
rant Bay. They were all put in atcnt, with
n sentry over them. After that we went to
Stoney Gut, where a woman fred a pistol
at us, but hit nobody. She wal captured.
We saw nobody there. Candles were burn
ing in the houses, IA If the people had Just
left. II was just turned dRybreak. We
pulled down twenty houses, and cut down
the eocoanut and ~breod-fruit trees.
Next day we saw another party burning
the houses, and We began 10 burning them
too. We stopped three days and destroyed
all the houses about sixty-and all the
fruit trees, We lived on the live stock, oil
we could catch; some ran into the wood. I
saw twelve men hanged ON the day we arri.
we'd. We went 10 fire our guns, and wo
were allowed q quarter Of an hour to see the
execution. A plank was laid across two
casks, anda piece of bamboo was laid ncross
the top. The men stood on the plank, and
q man ON the bamboo mado the rope fast. "