The Sun. — 1859-01-06 (London, England)

CIIELMSFORD, C. "CAMPBELL. "A. E. COCKBURN. " FRED. POLLOCK. " WM. WIGHTMAN. " ED.' VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. " SAMUEL MARTIN. " C. CRESSWELL."  ATTEMPT TO MURDER WV BOARD SHIP.  Captain John Binuett, of the barque Express, now lying at Queenstown, has been charged with firing a loaded pistol at Joseph Worthington, carpenter of the vessel, against whom there is a cross charge of insubordination. The charge against Worthington was first proceeded with. From the captain's evidence it appeared that, on the evening of the 23d Dec., Worthington quarrelled with him and the steward, and was grossly impertinent and insubordinate, saying that he had supreme authority in the ship, and refusing to leave the cabin when directed to do so. The captain then took a four-barrelled revolver, belonging to a passenger, and said he certainly would use it, if necessary, for his own protection. While in that position, with -the pistol in his hand, Worthington knocked him down, took the pistol away, presented it at. him and pulled the trigger, but it missed fire. He then went out of the cabin, and the captain heard three shots fired successively, one after another. Then, when the captain was sitting in his cabin, some person whom he did not see, but whom he suspected to be Worthington, fired a shot into the cabin. He produced the steward and a boy to support his statement, but their evidence was not substantially c roborativc of it. The charge against the captain of firing a loaded pistol at Worthington with intent to murder him was then gone into. The evidence_ to.sustain it was, that when the dispute occurred between the captain and Worthington, out of took up the pistol, and threatened to blot:tiler lat: toi's brains out. Worthington on this ran. the cabin to the forward part of the vessel, crying out to the men that the captain was going to shoot hearing earhim. One of the seamen, shoot anyone here," ing him, said, "No one shall named Ines, Worthington then went into the cabin andt ;d "Captain, , and ran into the I'm going to blow the carpenter's brains out, are you going to do ?" ly made cabin a rush at the reply.aasntdhesa. captain to take the pistol from him. Rines ran between them and caught them both by the collar, holding them as far apart as possible. -While doing this the captain fired the pistol, and the shot passed trough Rays' waistcoat, which, owing to his steting back to keep the parties asunder, was partly open, and lodged in the bulkhead at the height of four feet and a half from the floor. Worthington then ran over and knocked the captain down, taking the _revolver from him. fines said. to him, " Worthington, give me the pistol." " I will not," said he. " Well," said Rines; "go and fire it over the bulwarks." To this he assented, and fired the shots into the river, keeping pos ession of the pistol. The steward, who wcs very drunk, ran out then and made a blow of a knife at lirorthington, and Hines stopped him. Rines afterwards asked the captain if he had any more weapons, and. on receiving a reply in the negative, said, " Go to your berth, and It take care no one shall insult you." This the captain did, and Rines locked up tine steward, thus putting an end to the disturbance. The bench decided on dismissing the charge against Worthington, and took informations against the naptain, returnable to quarter sessions, but directei that he should be allowed outon bail on giving tvim sureties in £25 each, and himself in ;VA  3  ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, under the sole Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison THIS EVENING will be presented an entirely new and romantic Opera, by Mr. W. Halle, entitled