उठ
252
saved
cases
several
picked up in ser prisoner was alive when
got into the boat, and the prisoner
to whom he
coupled was dead.
I never saw anything which
to suppose.
bre". he was unsuitable in Juni
would induce
ve
that the bout
to convey eighty.
tiive
at
are
I have conveyed eighty.
uvicts in.
arre
passage.
there
regular order as to
sis
the
number to be conveyed - a few days prior to the accident the Superintendent directed that fifty Convicts only should be placed in the boat, but that morning upon taking the Convicts aboard,
there being fifty-five convicts in the boat, the Superintendant directed
to place
prisoners in
the boat and I placed eighty men
on-board. it appeared to me
the boat was
eighty
with safety.
that
capable of carrying
deposed by Jami
Edward Ashton-sworn.
Acting Sergeant of Police doing duty on
board the Convict Hulk. On the afternoon
of
the 25th July I was
23
bound
the Convict Hulk - standing at the
port
gangway
at the time that
the last detachment of Convicts came in
the usual boat alongside
the vessel. The Warden Manning