CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8] — Page 230

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and because the trial; be thought, had been hurried and not conducted with the deliberation due to so serious a charge, the interval

between the Commitment and

trink

was

very

short, and the

defendant had not the benefit of Council.

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Colonel Griffin voted for

confirmation of the sentence Lassed on the male Prisoner.

The Lieut. Goversion said that ine

entirely concurred in the Opinion of Blonel briffin, and in passing his confirmation of the Sentence

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remarked that he had conver

to that conclusion, because, after

weighing all the of the case

circumstances

carefully in his

mind, he was

that the Prisoner

fully convinced

was

quilty

f

the crime laid to his charge;

and therefore it was

me

necessary,

in order to deter others, to make

an

example of him... The

Sentence

Sentence of Death was If

was then confirmed, and it was ordered

that the same should be carried ints effect at the usual place of Excention on Tuesday next the 27th Instant, at half past Five o'clock in the moving, or thereabouts.

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