The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-12-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IMO!' WATBE—Moru. 324 --.F0.... ^ ship Neptune, from New York, charged with having murdered Dec. 3. a Dutchman, named John Smith, on the voyage from New Glenshee York to Liverpool. The case was beard before Mr. Grant, in Courier.... . one of the pollee courts. Mr. Wilding, of the American Emerald Merlin.. donsul's office, attended to hear the case, and Mr. Bluelt defended the prisoner. The case will be better understood by a narrative collected from the evidence, than it could by going Claudia through the testimony of the witnesses,which was not consecu- Amelia „ ' tive, It appeared that there is a custom in New York, and Rosins Cla ypolree, other American ports, of picking up men whilst drunk, and Gty of Baltimo shipping them as sailors ; in many cases such is not the case, Ocean Bride the men being mere landsmen. In the case, however, of Arno (s.s.) the deceased, ho was a sailor, and had been shipped in Arno (s . Now York, for New Orleans, but whilst in a state of intoxi- Hannah .. .... 11 cation he was picked up and put on board the Neptune, and it Ann .. ••• • was stated that the person who shipped him got forty dollars Dec. for him. When he became conscious, he got into a state of Bi excitement, and it seemed that he refused now and then to do einOthello a his duty. It was admitted that he was beaten by the Ingleboro ........ prisoner for not doing his duty, and that the treatment he received was cruel. On the night of the 24th November, he Queenstown, Dee.e. went luta the closet of the forecastle, and it was alleged that caatur:rende itandeo s vesselsh to t Ot.. r em. b i t.. the prisoner followed and beat him with a belaying pin. In Shamrock, Delany, some time after this the prisoner got a lantern and went to here with foremast gone. Ea the place again, when he called out that Smith had hanged Waterford, Dec. L—The Thora, from Liverpool to .Thommas himself. It was found that the man was hanging and quite Ivohdicilit,ell3luat, len floirerreeafateirrscollision, has been surveyed and remmer dead. Some time after, the body was sown up in rugs and Belfast,guee. 2I) —The Scotia, of and for Carnarvon, On Sk-lmattl thrown into the sea. It was stated that the body was Rocks, has been taken off the beach and brought into Bail— in a shocking state from bruises, and the evi- harbour. Vessel and cargo naiugiudz,abmatged. Hastings,rundow Dec.n he as to the time of " heaving" the body wasoff Flnlke.shtoAnenol n ty- Eliza e ' overboard, was very contradictory. One witness said it was Liverpool, which saved the ere., done immediately, and whilst the body was quite warm, and Bahia, Nov. 2.—The Cineinnitus, Sellers, from out,..—_ Bomhay, put into this port on the 29th ult., with loss of foremast. - the chief officer of the ship swore it was three hours and a half Gibraltar, 25.—The American ship Lady Franklin, bound to after death. This witness also stated that when the body was T „iwitheste Nov.Nv suo. 25. s f.nd red. found found hanging he had it cut down, and tried every means in New Orleans, Nov. 10.—The the on board the Thomas Jefferson, his power to restore animation, but failed. The line of defence loading at this port for Liverpool (Nov. 5), was extinguished in a f taken by Mr. Block was, that the deceased committed suicide, t;w6ohoouhraslebsyof floodingcotthn theso cotton with water. She had on beard 560 awe.h wire totally destroyed, and the 1 and he ably argued that when the evidence was of such a con- remainder more or leas damaged. da Cadiz, Nov. 23.—The Bourgainville, Olives, from Bordeaux to this flitting character, and in so serious a charge as that of murder, . , ___,,, port, to lord wines tor Blelbourne and Sydney, got upon the rocks . . ,