every foolie
Cr
board was more or
less engaged in the commission of the deed, but this with
the
connivance and expressed sanction of the second mater and creiv : the other prisoners negatived this admission as far as they concerned, but denounced. He Achoy
Avcre
ad or
the second mate and crew
of the guilty. indiquantly denied.
denied any participation, active
or
passive, in such counsels, and affirmed
that they believed the murders to have been
unpremeditated, and to have been simply
an
outbreak of violent passion already
stimulated to excess.
It is not
opinion
02)
not for
me, I conceive, to pass
the case, further than to
that, the evidence given before
me so
criminates the prisoners as to render
Far
say
further
inquiry highly desirable with a view to a
fuller discovery of the part cack took in this
lamentable transaction.
Under these circumstances, I have
committed the whole number, as I should
$3
probably have committed them to take their trial for the one crime or the other at least, had the case been cognizable by the Supreme Court of this Colony,
I have, &c.
(Signed) B. W. Hillier
Chief
Town (officer
Magistrate
Maen
tary
(olonial, soukry
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