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"Friend of China. N.14 of 18th February,
1042.
A Criminal Session of the Supreme Court commenced on Monday, and will hardly be brought to a close before noon to-morrow. Following is the Court's Calendar of cases set down for trial, with the results of six out of the Ten on the list (according to the order in which they were tried). A report of the Cor cyra's case is partly in types, and will appear in
our next :-
1. Regina v. Booray and five others Murder on
the high Seas.
JUDGE'S SENTENCE, Prisoners at the bar (two guilty out of six you have been found guilty of wilful murder and I should have had no hesitation in passing on you the fullest penalty of the law, were it not that on a former occasion I passed sentence of death in this Court on men who, partly on their own confession, were also proved folly guilty of wholesale murder, and that sentence, for what reason I know not, was commuted for a milder unis ment On the same grounds that thos men received a commutation of their sentences, whatever those
unknown grounds may have ben, you, in all impartiality, are entitled to the same leniency. I have therefore only recorded sentence of death against you, and shall state to His Excell-ucy the Governor my reasons for n at once sentencing you to the death you deserve.