THE LONGHURST CASE.
♦ " Justice" writing to the Post, says : — I heartily agree with the letter signed "Humanity" on this case, and trust a little of that will be displayed on this occasion. Without entering upon the merits or demerits o' the case, which has so long been before the public, it does seem strange after so much has been done: — the case reopened, .fresh evidence thoroughly investigated, and. Longhurst himself brought (as it was said) back again like one from the grave, and ' a favourable verdict — the man should be doomed to suffer that which of all calam- : ities is the most terrible and painful, when on the very threshold, of liberty, 1 for I think the general opinion was, that his liberation only awaited the adjustment of a few technical points. If, in one case, the parties who were found guilty of one of the foulest crimes—con--piracy-—were set at liberty on technical grounds, surely, under such circumstances, surrounded as the case has been with so much conflicting evidence, a little mercy extended to the other would still have met the claims of justice., I trust that a petition will immediately be got up, and .feel, sure, if signatures are any weight in the matter there will be an abundant supply.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 71, 21 February 1883, Page 2
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