Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New YorkWarburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
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Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Warburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
Piracy -- United States; Privateering -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
and the said brig, the Joseph, of the value of $3,000, and the
tackle, apparel, and furniture thereof, of the value of $500, and
250 hogsheads of sugar, of the value of $100 each hogshead, the
same then and there being of the lading of the said brig, of the
goods, chattels, and personal property of the said Thies N. Meyer,
in his presence and against his will, did violently, feloniously,
and piratically rob, steal, seize, take, and carry away, against
the form of the statute of the said United States of America in
such case made and provided, and against the peace of the said
United States and their dignity.
_Fifth Count_: And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid,
do further present: That Thomas Harrison Baker, late of the City
and County of Nev York, in the District and Circuit aforesaid,
mariner; and John Harleston, late of the same place, mariner;
Charles Sidney Passalaigue, late of the same place, mariner; Henry
Cashman Howard, late of the same place, mariner; Joseph Cruz del
Carno, late of the same place, mariner; Henry Oman, late of the
same place, mariner; Patrick Daly, late of the same place, mariner;
William Charles Clark, late of the same place, mariner; Albert
Gallatin Ferris, late of the same place, mariner; Richard Palmer,
late of the same place, mariner; John Murphy, late of the same
place, mariner; Alexander Carter Coid, late of the same place,
mariner; and Martin Galvin, late of the same place, mariner, each
being a citizen of the United States of America, on the 3d day of
June, in the year of our Lord 1861, upon the high seas, out of the
jurisdiction of any particular State, and within the admiralty and
maritime jurisdiction of the United States of America, and within
the jurisdiction of this Court, in and upon one Thies N. Meyer,
then and there being, the said Thies N. Meyer then and there being
a citizen of the said United States, and he, the said Thies N.
Meyer, then and there being in and on board of a certain American
vessel of the United States of America, to wit, a brig called the
Joseph, and the said brig then and there being on the high seas as
aforesaid, did, piratically, feloniously and violently, make an
assault, and him, the said Thies N. Meyer, did, piratically,
feloniously and violently, then and there put in bodily fear, and
the said brig, the Joseph, of the value of $3,000, the tackle,
apparel and furniture of the same, of the value of $500, and 250
hogsheads of sugar, of the value of $100 each hogshead, of the
goods, chattels and personal property of the said Thies N. Meyer,
from the said Thies N. Meyer, and in his presence, and against his
will, did, piratically, feloniously and violently, seize, rob,
steal, take and carry away, against the form of the statute of the
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