CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 265

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and when the sentence was considered in the Executive Council the Chief Justice, was attended by request, signified his approval of the recommendation.

Gachet, a Frenchman recodingly had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life.

Jones and Gibbons, British Subjects, underwent the extreme penalty of the Law on the morning of Monday last the 7th Instant.

I have the hour to be, With the highest respect, Lin your most obedient Humble servant,

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4 May 1859

Shave & acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No 41 of The 19th March reporting the execution of two Seamen named Jones and Gibbons for the wilful murder of a Chinese boy on board the American ship Mastiff in Hong Kong Harbour

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and when the sentence was considered in the Executive Council the Chief Justice, was attended by request, signified his approval of the recommendation. Gachet, a Frenchman recodingly had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. Jones and Gibbons, British Subjects, underwent the extreme penalty of the Law on the morning of Monday last the 7th Instant. I have the hour to be, With the highest respect, Lin your most obedient Humble servant, [Page 262] 4 May 1859 Shave & acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No 41 of The 19th March reporting the execution of two Seamen named Jones and Gibbons for the wilful murder of a Chinese boy on board the American ship Mastiff in Hong Kong Harbour
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and when the sentence was considered in the Executive Council the Chief Justice, was attended by request, signified his approval of the recommendation. i j Gachet, a Frenchman recodingly had his sentena commuted to penal servitude for life. Jones and Gibbons, British Subjects, underwent the extreme penalty of the Law on the morning of Monday last the 7th Instant. bet... 2/5. I have the hour to be, With the highest respect, Lin your most obedient Humbleservant, 4 Amemp 4502 G6 may Rovernor Sir John Barring PHUTE Ew 49 MAY. 4 جدا May 1859 262 Shave & acknowledge the receipt of greur dispatch ho 41 The 19th march reporting the execution д two Seamen named Jones and Gibbons for the wilful munder of a Chinese boy on board the American ship mastiff in Hong King Harbour
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and when the sentence was considered in the Executive Council the Chief Justice, was attended by request, signified his approval of the recommendation.

i j

Gachet, a Frenchman

recodingly

had his sentena

commuted to penal servitude

for life.

Jones and Gibbons, British Subjects, underwent the extreme penalty of the Law on the morning of Monday last the 7th Instant.

bet...

2/5.

I have the hour to be,

With the highest respect,

Lin

your most obedient Humbleservant,

4 Amemp

4502

G6 may

Rovernor

Sir John Barring

PHUTE

Ew 49

MAY.

4

جدا

May 1859

262

Shave & acknowledge the

receipt of greur

dispatch ho 41

The 19th march

reporting the

execution

д

two

Seamen named

Jones and Gibbons for the wilful munder of a Chinese

boy

on board the

American ship

mastiff

in Hong

King Harbour

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