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Thomas N. Foster with an axe and stone, and the other sixteen as accessories before the act. The third count charges Henry Jones with the murder of Joseph Fales with an axe, and the other seventeen as accessories before the act. The fourth indictment charges Edward Smith with the murder of Samuel Marah with a stone, and the other seventeen as accessories before the act; and the fifth count charges Stephen Peters, Charles H. Smith alias John Ward and Charles H. Davis with the murder, by means unknown, of Wm. T. Shea, with the other fifteen as accessories before the act.
THE COUNSEL.
The Counsel for the men are Messrs Archibald Stirling, Jr., J. Edward Stirling, E. J. Waring, Joseph S. Davis, James D. Cotter and Robert B. Graham.
THE JURY.
For the trial of George S. Key on the first count, the following jury were selected. Messrs. Oliver P. Merryman, John B. Herold, John Van Tromp, Robert Augustus Denny, James S. Beaver, Dr. J. William S. Jordon, Rollins E. Barnes, James H. Stone, Joseph Renshaw, Jr., William McLean, August Deichman and John Meushaw.
The Guano deposits on the Island of Navassa are owned and controlled principally by Baltimoreans, who are combined into stock companies. The Navassa Phosphate Company, with offices in the Chamber of Commerce Building, Baltimore, are the principal owners, and it is on their property that the trouble occurred.
Key was convicted of murder in the first degree on December 2d, 1889, after a trial of twelve days and by a jury that deliberated upon his guilt or innocence for two days and two nights. He was indicted for the killing of James Mahon, one of the five white officers on the Island of Navassa, September 14th.
