REPRIEVED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1038, 30 January 1911, Page 5

REPRIEVED.

BULAWAYAN NATIVE'S CRIME, ; MIDNIGHT STRUGGLE. ' LORD GLADSTONE'S REPLY TO-. PROTESTS. ~ j By Telegraph—Press Association—Cocyrifilit( ■ j (Rec. January 29,-5.5 p.m.) V Cape Town, January 28. 'j The facts concerning the reprieve of\. the Bulawayan native found guilty of!.: 1 . j assault show that the woman assaulted, — i : ; and her four children, were living ' j Uratali, tho husband being absent. A/V.:'/!"'.-:,'] powerful native who'had previously been!-, v'-. in the employ of the family entered the' ' ' window at midnight and, was found in a bedroom, where a prolonged struggle took 5 -.. place. Afterwards the native agara* . entered the house, and the bedroom had.* to bo barricaded. He had been drinking. - Viscount Gladstone, Governor-General! . of South Africa, in reply to the ~- protests, stated that after reviewing the evidence he commuted the death sentenco i to penal servitude for life because there! was a distinct doubt, and it was impos-i. ' ' sible to conclude that rape had actuallyf '> r ' ' been committed. Viscount' Gladstone's; • ■ view is fortified by the judge's opinion.! that he would prefer a verdict of assault! with intent. Viscount Gladstone, in con-1"' . : : elusion, states that the crime was un-..; - premeditated, and accused presumably ' entered the house to get food and Srinkj ... STATEMENT BY MISS BOTHA,

.WOMEN WILL TREMBLE. London, January 27 ~. The sister o£ General Eotha (Premier ' of the South African Parliament), who is now in London, states that r South! African women, in view of tho reprieve/ of the Buluwayan-native found guilty ofj assault, will tremble for fear .of the con-;, sequences. Such crimes, Miss Botha clares, are more common than the Enj-' lish public are aware of. FURTHER REPRIEVES. THE 1906 REBELLION. Cape Town,' January 27. Viscount Gladstone has reprieved j rj . Rhodesian natives who wfcte. to death for murder—threb of them 1 ion* the tribal custom of ; killing twins, Tilonko and other Zulu ■ chiefs, • wbgf : were imprisoned at St. Helena for: paiv ticipation in the 1906 rebellion, have been' released. -