Lee Ansowo -
Sentence of Death recorded against
Wong Whit.
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Extract from the Minutes of the Executive Council held on the
3.
(Signed) J.H.
Walter Houlme, Chief Justice.
True Copy
J. Gardiner
Colonial Secretary
17th March 1856.
With regard to the case of Hung-allelin and others convicted of the murder of Sheik - Mahomed Willie at East Point, His Excellency stated that numerous representations, - calling in question the guilt of the prisoners, had reached him from several quarters; but it appearing that the statements they contained in favour of the Convicts were not on oath, it was Resolved that consideration of the Chief Justice's Notes of the trial should be deferred, and that the evidence above referred to should be taken on oath before...