546
the Capt of the
On board the British barque Frederick | Declaration of the 25th day of July 1876, at 12.45 pm.
Shije, m. Ple
the judge accompanied by the Fiscal and us the witnesses, appeared Mr. Patrick Keating, Captain of the ship, married, aged 52 with 5 children, belonging to the town of Ermishalen, of the district of Ireland, Great Britain, who
says
he
is a Roman Catholic and under the
oath which he took through the Interpreter,
no John Robinson (who
happened to be on board and who
undertook to interpret faithfully)
declared
Question who had wounded him
and for what reason and
explain all details.
Said Robert Smith, James Brown, &
John Cottle, sailors
without being
aware
of
this casual...
of their
say
reason and all he can
that about 11.30 from the
previous evening when he
was
asleep in his cabin, he
was aroused by the blows which they inflicted with an iron belaying pin weighing 6lb.. the first blow which awakened him, was given
on the inside of the left... which lay
on his breast and
the second on Crown of the head and forehead...