October 6.
'On Friday last week, a negro man, named George, the property of one Ned Welch, a free Mulatto man, who lives on Lysson's estate, was tried at Morant Bay, before James Donaldson and Joseph Orr, Esqrs, and a jury of three freeholders, on the Obeah act, on a charge for laying obeah, and procuring a phial of strong poison to destroy the white people on Stanton estate, in the parish of St. Thomas in the East. The prisoner confessed that he gave the poison to the negroes belonging to Stanton; a majority of whom, knowing his reputation among the slaves as an adept in the occult sciences, applied to him, and asked his assistance to finish their overseer, and others to whom they had taken a dislike, although no sufficient cause appeared to cherish or excite their diabolical enmity. After a fair and impartial hearing, the prisoner was found guilty by the jury, and the following sentence was pronounced ...' Sentenced to death by hanging, then to have his head severed and stuck on a pole on the roof of Stanton mill house. This was done.
'It seems that another negro, who was to have been tried as an accomplice with George, fell down dead immediately after he was carried before the Court.'
