The daily gazette., 1875-01-14
FIRST EDITION
District Court.
YESTERDAYS EssIoN-PRoGREs5 OF THE
SMUGGLING TRIALs.

capt. h. Ii. Lubker continued - did
not see VIM IL. Ellegood III the boat
the man | saw was Joshua Eliegood.
Gross examined-Have but speaking
acquaintance with Crosby; have seen
them off and on since last spring VIM.
Crosby did come once for IN anchor
which | deliyered to him to be sent to
Philadelphia once soll him some old
junk for So cents yesterday we spoke
and shook hands il the Clayton House;
it was NOT Crosby'5 custom TO put his
bare boat where it was that night don't
know whether | mentioned bbls OF not
before Commissioner Smith ia my exam
ination Williams boat il about lS or
20 feet long and held the load | deacrib-
ed (e5timated at 20a0 lbsJ they could
have rowea to shore ope and half or
two miles otf in half an hour; saw the
moon come out when returned to my
vessel the moon was also out when the
boats ciasped oars mover said wonld
try TO convict the Crosbya because they
were Massachusetts men went Out af-
ter the boat that night through curios-
ity never was on board the Masonic
had previously heard talk ~ Smuggling;
1 said yesterday my vessel and the Ma
sonic laid a cables length apart, that is
from anchorage to anchorage, from At
KIM 4 bow to the Masonie's stern ia about
100 feet; the harbor regulations do not
require vessels lying inside the pier TO
put up u light, but when outside they
do; | have been in Ellcgood's house
about twenty times bought goods there
last week; when | passed Capt. Will
liams' boat that night there was II small
quantity Of bags or old sail in it, it migh
have been rope or chain, Or spun yarn
used 70 lower the material into the boat;
Joshua Ellepood had on IL dark coet but
toned mp and his hat slouched down
don't know how Crosby was dressed.
John u. LOCKWOOD testified to being
ono of Tho mon who manned Cnpt. Lub-
kerr boat that evening and varied but
littl' from the captain'A story. except
that ho did not SEQ any lowering done
Bile TO fire relative distances with the
samo accuracy.
Levin 4. Jcnkina testified that ho wus
keeper OF the Breakwater Light; that
he remembered the time the Masonic
WAC laying Ht thu isreakwate and that
on the night OF the lst Of June. and saw
- boat With two men in it going to the
bark
Captain Willians testified 10 tising up
hia boat on the night of juno and at ten
o'clock, AMI next morning finding that
she had been lsod. there being tracks
around her ind brown sugar scatteretl
| over the thwarts; and to seeing William
Crosby and WA. H. Ellegood driving
away from Ellegood's house that morn
| ing botween eight and nine o'clock; saw
| Alton Crosby on the beach shat morning
was on the boat the Sunday previous,
saw four barrels of sugar open on the
| foraoastlo; tho sugar was similar in color
i IN tlat fOuu1 in INV l.ut
Cross examined.-My boat has been
| takan before without my knowledge
never offered samples OF sugar for sale
| to VIM. Ellegood; my boat carries about
y ton; | haye carried sugar in her for
MIR. Maull
Levi B. Lynch Live at Lewes; went
out on Wednesday morning, June Sd, to
see about my gill net when finished
thought would go down the beach and
sec who else had nets out; when Hear
| Ellegoofs house and between it and the
pier saw ii boat at the beach; thought
it Was Capt. Williams boat; there were
three or four men around it; l then be.
l1oved them to be the Ellegood boys and
the Crosby boya; have had no reason to
think otherwise since; | started to &c
down to the boat but changed my mind
they hud something in sacks and Were
| taking them out and placing them on
the beach; don't know whethor they
took out Gil the sacks or not did not see
| amy nQ.l II them that III ,ht.
Gro ro:s-oxauiined.-l thought they were
the E.leg, OF and Crosby boys but woule
not like to swear to 1t.
Captain Lyons testified that Le wa
Inspector OF Customa ct Lewas, and q.
such made out the Masoaie's manifest
giving one to the captain and forwarding
the duplicate to the port Of destination
| New York.
! J. y, Vanarnsdale testified that h,
was Inspector Of Customs in the NeV
arrived there on June 9th, and he pro
duced the duplicate manifest which CAP
tain Lyons recognized as the one he sent
| William Lingo testified that he wa
h store keeper at Georgetown that il
the early part of June Ellegood ant
one OF the Crosby boys came 10 In,
store and offered to sell me SOM
browa sugar for seven or eight cents
pound told me that he was selling TO
Crosby the man with him they sait
that the sugar came from on board
vessel there was sample left at tn,
store, but | was not there then sait
they had barrels,
| Francis Rage, New York Custom
House officer testified that the mani
fest of the bark called for one hogs
head more of sugar than was landed
there,
The United States here rested tn
case.
| Mr.. Harrington for the defense thel
asked the court 10 direct the jury t
bring in verdict for the defendant Oh
the grounds that the government hat
utterly failed to substantiate any o
the counts in the indictment tina
there was no sugar shown to be brough
| in that whatever goods were brough
in they were not shown to he such a
should be inyoiced that supposing the
facts oil proved tho offense was SNUG
ling and not an importation as laid il
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