I saw no better way than to take them before Sir Sampson Wright, who was then at the head of the police of the metropolis.

He examined, and cross-examined them several times, and apart from each other.

He then desired their evidence to be drawn up in the form of depositions, copies of which he gave to me.

He had no doubt that the murder would be proved.

The circumstances of the deceased being in good health at nine o'clock in the evening, and of his severe sufferings till eleven, and of the nature of the wounds discovered to have been made on his person, and of his death by one in the morning, could never, he said, be done away, by any evidence, who should state that he had been subject to other disorders, which might have occasioned his decease.
He found himself therefore compelled to apply to the magistrates of Liverpool, for the apprehension of three of the principal officers of the ship.