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Thread #84589   Message #1562164
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-Sep-05 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: happy? - Sept 12 (executed for torture)
Subject: RE: happy? - Sept 12 (executed for torture)
From thread 42495, Malcolm Douglas posts.
Andrew Rose (Ross)- 1832-1857, died 5 June
Captain Henry Rogers, hanged Sept. 12 1857
Mates William Miles and Charles E.Seymour, sentenced to hang but transported.
Ship Martha and Jane
Song not noted before 1900.
Andrew Rose

Two versions in the DT.

Information on the trial in Lillian Goldman Law Library, Morris Law School, Yale Univ. Record of the trial published in 1857, Lewis and Son, London. Trial for "the willful murder on the high seas of Andrew Rose, a seaman..." Mr. Baron Watson presided. Evidence from a report prepared "for Her Majesty's government by Bond Hughes, esq."