The Mignonette Tragedy

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 91, 15 January 1885, Page 3

The Mignonette Tragedy

C*- ? *~a ■ ■*„'. ■-■¥!■; — r-^r- ' •.<•■ . •: . . . . The London correspondent of a con^ teifrpowiry -furnishes the following in reference to the. trial, of Dudley and Stevens ' : — Thanlcs to the kindly feeling, and judicial knowledge of Mi" Baron tluddlestono, the jury who tried the ipapta^n and mate of the Mignonette were enabled to avoid the painful necessity* of pronouncing them guilty ©fwiirder; and to pass on the responsibility of deciding the (a*e to her Mw«Sty*s' Judged The affair is now practically" ai; an end, fur "there can be no doubt that Dudley and' Stevens will be absolved - frpna - punishment, even though they . niay be found tetiSnlc^ly guilty of crime*' 7 1 met a bal^ilt<Jr [i tl?e ' other ; day : wh" o goes 6ft thW^estern. t circuit arid,, was prespnt in the Court at Exeter during the trial. E£gsellsjnie.. : tha jnost remarkable feature in the case was the difference beMr%^n' 4h& demeanour of- Dudley and Stevens. The former was bluff } cheer- r ful. f anfl' defiant; ; the latter bowed ' doinf witlr'Bh'am'e aiid' apprch^nsiv^nej*.. iJ^ien, ,Bf oqka began to give Jus eviaenceDoth "Dudley and fetevens "fihfflr^f igp?^f [.considerable anxiety, the latter turning ashy palp," t and trembling . ,Thi^ may merely have been caused _by a recollection of th^r_o^tual_ sufferings^ but; some. jof thfcwdesfe counset pn the circuit are of optalonirthat there* is : a side^ to this terrible tale of the -sea -that never has • nor neve%<jgm< be^tnovn. Perhaps '. Dudley an^^ijayens^eared that at. the last momentTßroo^a might tell soniething whichuiey,ha'd,all"decided shoiild not be told. £ir Of^c I 6urse; this "b pure oenjecture, ;? and 1 very kindly' jecture eiMe*,*6nswiering what ap ; : a'ling agonies wevkacm* the poor fellows underw,en^ l?ut barristers are f or ey.erI sniffing out something wonderful.