The ship of seven murders
Subtitle: a true story of madness and murder
By: Alannah Hopkin with Kathy Bunney
Contributors: Bunney, Kathy
Edition: 1st large print ed., complete and unabridged.
Series: Ulverscroft Softcover series
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781444809329
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Mass murder; History; Sailors; Crimes against; Trials (Murder); Large type books; Mary Russell (Brig)
Description: "On 25 June 1828, the Mary Russell sailed into Cork harbour from the West Indies. Seven crew members lay in the main saloon, brutally and inexplicably murdered by the captain. Survivors revealed a tale of danger and delusion on the high seas ... The story of the Mary Russell was forgotten until Kathy Bunney located the grave of a murdered crewman. Now the facts of the case have been reconstructed. How would today's psychiatrists and courts view Captain Stewart's behaviour? A bizarre tragedy, its true story and dramatic court case are unravelled in this gripping account"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Part one: The voyage (1. The cove of Cork ; 2. The ship, her crew and cargo ; 3. The passage out ; 4. A prophetic dream ; 5. The tying up of the first mate ; 6. The tying up of the crew ; 7. Howes' escape ; 8. The work of death ; 9. A meeting in the forepeak ; 10. Rescue); title: Part two: The inquest (11. William Scoresby on thye Mary Russell ; 12. The inquest concluded ; 13. After the inquest ; 14. The Mary Russell in Cork ; 15. Meetings with a murderer ; 16. News travels ; 17. The bigger picture); title: Part three: The trial (18. The arraignment ; 19. The case for the prosecution ; 20. The case for the defence ; 21. Reflections on the trial ; 22. Cork City Gaol, 1828-1830 ; 23. Asylum, 1830-1873 ; 24. Mutiny and piracy); title: Postscript.