The owner of the gang in question lately died--to whom it is said they were greatly attached--and they passed into the hands of a Mr.
Jocken, the present overseer.

Jocken is a notoriously cruel man.

It was scarcely a twelvemonth ago, that he was fined one hundred pounds currency, and sentenced to imprisonment for three months in the Kingston jail, _for tying one of his apprentices to a dead ox_, because the animal died while in the care of the apprentice.

He also confined a woman in the same pen with a dead sheep, because she suffered the sheep to die.

Repeated acts of cruelty have caused Jocken to be regarded as a monster in the community.