 He then had the captured crew's necks tied to their heels and thrown overboard to watch them drown.Eventually captured in Scotland, he was returned to London, tried and convicted of piracy.Paul Lorrain ministered to the imprisoned Dalzeel and found him “a pernicious and dangerous person; of a morose, stubborn, and ill disposition by nature,” and “so brutish and so obstinate that he would not be satisfied with anything I offered to him in this matter, saying, he hated to see my face, and would not attend in the Chapel.” Lorrain had acted as translator at Dalzeel’s trial, presenting evidence in French for the English court.