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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Escaped seaman Charles Kelly arrived in Kingston, Jamaica, and provided detailed testimony before magistrates against Johnson for piracy and murder on the schooner Friendship, where Keating was executed and Twentyman sentenced to death. Johnson's trial postponed due to prior lack of evidence; new details of his cruelty revealed.
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We learn from Kingston, in Jamaica, that Charles Kelly, the seaman that escaped from the schooner Friendship, on board of which the piracy and murder were committed by Johnson, Keating, and Twentyman, for which Keating suffered, and the latter sentenced to die, is arrived there, and underwent a long examination before three magistrates, in which he made every discovery, and the most ample information for the conviction of Johnson, who is still in gaol, and whose trial has been postponed for want of evidence. It is said that he has also related some circumstances of Johnson's cruelty, which have not yet been made public, and tend greatly to the aggravation of his guilt.
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Kingston, Jamaica
Event Date
August 15
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keating suffered; twentyman sentenced to die; johnson in gaol, trial postponed; kelly's testimony provides evidence for johnson's conviction
Event Details
Charles Kelly, escaped seaman from schooner Friendship, arrived in Kingston and underwent examination before three magistrates, revealing full details of piracy and murder committed by Johnson, Keating, and Twentyman. He provided ample information for Johnson's conviction and related unreported circumstances of Johnson's cruelty.