he had gain to one of
there and that he inflicted.
the wounds whit cound the dratt
but he says
the tear thuch
that when he sized the deceased woman. hun with a grashook and that bith the arman hair on the head with
a
Moch
time and he heave wiheitte
the surviving
woman denies that they had
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or that they struck him with a stone - after the thinks
the inspeler ofdice who was net caked as statech that be bad searched the house
a witregt o the
J
was in alleged than used the prophark and could.
and find no such article there - athough the stated that
The had
one in her herse
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aus the Almial
Weyem
the examined the prismer's bead but was not called as
witness states that the wounds which the wman sag. made by the chopper in her strapple with the prisoner
in her spesi
love wide
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a truugh
stime
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preis off
2 rock-pun this additional endenes the Gast infors that the prisoner's tatement was thire and that the crime was then reduced tomanslaughter bat apuming that the man and women defeated themchen with a shave and a grasshook-thuigh thing the kind appears to have been found on the spot - as
they
trapon
вер
stuck
agpresses and made pu
a stone and that the
use
a murderous.
can h
it is difficult to der har sit his crimine
very thraming theen macher - I cannot be thuile that the Germani
the
much influence ing
action
Shim
this matter was
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Yu
the view which he has adopted in accordance with the
capital ponen afton Ismall that in sorg til for at se stricter should be complage Gattention assigned to the prismer by the judge at the expense of the state and that as thes close was not adopted in the present case he was prefaced to find that the that had not her satisfactory - Acbented sit
but without expre-pin any opinion. as to this case was that he suflet have it requires iny shiny grounds to justify him in disregarding the The opinion ofthe main't the Consul backed by that the Judge. & Inde
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Sir
Government House,
3/4
Hong Kong 31th July, 1875
I have the honor to seroit
that in Her Majesty's
Mame
S
have commuted the Sentence of death passed
on a
prisoner named
The Right Honorable
Sir Michael Sticks Beach, Bt., M....
: Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
Ac.
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