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Q. Name all the persons you left on 
the Island, where you cut the cable of 
the ship and escaped. 
t/2. Silas Payne, John Oliver, (being 
the principal mutineers next to Samuel 
B. Comstock,) Thomas Lilliston, Row¬ 
land Coffin, William Lay, Cyrus M» 
Hussey,. Columbus Worth, Rowland 
Jones, and the Sandwich Island native, 
called Joseph Brown. The last five I 
believe ignorant of any knowledge of 
the intent to murder. 
Q. What became of Samuel B. Com¬ 
stock, who was the head mutineer after 
he landed upon the Island 1 
Me was shot on the morning of 
the 17th Feb. by Silas Payne, and John 
Oliver, his associates in all the mutiny 
and murderous course they had pursu* 
ed, and buried five feet deep on the 
beach near their tent; a chapter was 
read from the bible by me, acting un¬ 
der the orders of Payne, and muskets 
were fired by his orders, by the men. 
Q. Why did they murder Corn- 
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