axcases of local crime . Sam happy to say that in every instance I
murder, were cases,
was able to obtain a conviction,
that, with
and, moreover,
two exceptions, all the offenders charged
were committed.
In the John Wade' murder case which ended this day, (the third of the trial) the offence was scarcely to be added to the category of local crime.
The
murder indeed had been committed within the waters
of a Hongkong, but the scene of the murder wasan United States.
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Merchantman, officered and
to a grea
a great extent manned by persons of that country; n
nov
was their victim, a British subject.
The three first prisoners were found guilty of "Manslaughter : _ and the remaining two, after much deliberation, were acquitted. The Chief Justice said: that the jury had shown mor : mercy to the convicted criminals than they had
shown to their victim, and
to
that he had failed discover any extenuating