36.
Ultimate publicity.
447.
Judicial
Aus? 49.
6.
REC
4502. chong hong
2 MAY
261
1859. Fremantle officials, Vicinity,
Hong Kong, 12th March, 1859.
I have to report that on the
24th Ultimo three seamen Jones, Gibbons, and Williams alias Gacket,
were sentenced to death
for wilful murder of a
Chinese
on board of the American Ship "Mastiff" in this Harbour-
The Jury subsequently
recommended Gacket to mercy
The Right Honourable
Sir Edward B. Lytton, Bart., M. P.,
etc.
etc.
etc.