![]() ![]() I did not give him the directions, I knew he had been ordered I saw him there. After that, I left the ship, and returned home, and I met by appointment three persons who were particular friends, and persons in the same line of business with myself I took them down with me between eight and nine at night we went down close to where this lighter lay with the Brazil wood at Horslydown, on the 10th of April, before low water, we placed ourselves very near to the ship that brought the wood, and the lighter that had received it on board, at slack tide, when the flood-tide began to make, I heard Wiseman's voice in the lighter, and by the reflection of a light from the ship's deck, I saw him, and I knew him, he then was in the act of getting the lighter from along side of the ship, in order to proceed up with her with the flood-tide towards the wharf where she was directed to go. She was so far loaded, that these marked pieces of wood must be on the top? - A. Yes, and the lighter was so far loaded, the quantity she had received, they could not do any otherways than lay it uppermost there was very little more than what was in the cabin to be delivered, which I desired to be put in last.Ĭourt. I did mark in the cabin a certain number of pieces of Brazil wood. Taking the marking iron with you, did you mark any wood? - A. You went the next morning? - A About two o'clock, on the 10th of April, I went on board the ship for the purpose of ascertaining whether the lighter would receive all the wood on board, so as to come up on the return of the flood-tide in the evening I took with me a marking iron which I had made about a month previous for the purpose of marking wood or other packages. ![]() He is a journeyman lighterman, and had been constantly in our employ for three years. Yes, he went down on that night with the tide, preparatory to receive it the next day. You believe Solomon Wiseman was to go down to the ship on the 9th of April? - A. Wiseman, I believe, I am not positive to that fact.Ĭourt. entered the wood on the evening of the 9th, a lighter was sent to the ship. Did you send a lighter on the 9th of April? - A. It was entered at the Custom-house, and suffered to be landed at the Steel-yard, by an order of the Commissioners of the Customs. Bullers, then stationed at Horslydown? - A. Were you in the month of April, 1804, employed to convey any Brazil wood from a vessel belonging to Messrs. My brother John Lucas, and John Barber, we are lightermen, and merchants agents. What are the names of your partners? - A. For like offence, only laying it to be the property of Richard Buller, Hieroniman Berminster, and Cornelius Buller. in a lighter, in the navigable River Thames, the property of Matthias Prime Lucas, John Lucas, and John Barber. SOLOMON WISEMAN was indicted for feloniously stealing 704 pounds weight of Brazil wood, value 24 l. ![]()
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