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every foolie

board was more or

less engaged in the commission of the deed, but this with

the

connivance and expressed sanction of the second mater and creiv : the other prisoners negatived this admission as far as they concerned, but denounced. He Achoy

Avcre

ad or

the second mate and crew

of the guilty. indiquantly denied.

denied any participation, active

passive, in such counsels, and affirmed

that they believed the murders to have been

unpremeditated, and to have been simply

outbreak of violent passion already

stimulated to excess.

It is not

opinion

02)

not for

me, I conceive, to pass

the case, further than to

that, the evidence given before

me so

criminates the prisoners as to render

Far

say

further

inquiry highly desirable with a view to a

fuller discovery of the part cack took in this

lamentable transaction.

Under these circumstances, I have

committed the whole number, as I should

probably have committed them to take their trial for the one crime or the other at least, had the case been cognizable by the Supreme Court of this Colony,

I have, &c.

(Signed) B. W. Hillier

Chief

Town (officer

Magistrate

Maen

tary

(olonial, soukry

}

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every foolie Cr board was more or less engaged in the commission of the deed, but this with the connivance and expressed sanction of the second mater and creiv : the other prisoners negatived this admission as far as they concerned, but denounced. He Achoy Avcre ad or the second mate and crew of the guilty. indiquantly denied. denied any participation, active or passive, in such counsels, and affirmed that they believed the murders to have been unpremeditated, and to have been simply an outbreak of violent passion already stimulated to excess. It is not opinion 02) not for me, I conceive, to pass the case, further than to that, the evidence given before me so criminates the prisoners as to render Far say further inquiry highly desirable with a view to a fuller discovery of the part cack took in this lamentable transaction. Under these circumstances, I have committed the whole number, as I should $3 probably have committed them to take their trial for the one crime or the other at least, had the case been cognizable by the Supreme Court of this Colony, I have, &c. (Signed) B. W. Hillier Chief Town (officer Magistrate Maen tary (olonial, soukry }

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every foolie Cr board was more or less engaged in the commission of the deed, but this with the connivance and expressed sanction of the second mater and creiv : the other prisoners negatived this admission as far as they concerned, but denounced. He Achoy Avcre ad or the second mate and crew of the guilty. indiquantly denied. denied any participation, active or passive, in such counsels, and affirmed that they believed the murders to have been unpremeditated, and to have been simply outbreak of violent passion already an stimulated to excess. аю It is not opinion 02) not for me, I conceive, to pass the case, further than to that, the evidence given before me so criminates the prisoners as to render Far say further inquiry highly desirable with a view to a fuller discovery of the part cack took in this lamentable transaction. Under these circumstances, I have committed the whole number, as I should $3 probably have committed them to take their trial for the one crime or the other at least, had the case been cognizable by the Supreme, Court of this Colony, I have, &o, Signed) B. 12. Hillier Erief Tone (ofery Magistrate Maen tary (olonial, soukry }

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