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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 15, 20 July 1889, Page 2

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Snt,— l have perused the leading article in to-day's issue of your- paper, comment* ing* apparently adversely, upon the verdict of the jury in the now celebrated Chemis-Ha wirings murder case.

You must be aware that the evidence appearing in the various papers reporting; oases, is always condensed. You will no doubt also admit that the jurors who hear the whole of the evidence viva voce, are better able to arrive at a true conclusion on the merits of a case put before them, than those who at different stages may drop into a court and do not bear the whole of "the evidence, or are dependent upon a condensed newspaper report of th* proceedings. "

Now in one portion of the article I have referred to you state that the details of the evidence before you are but " few and imperfect," such being the case on what do you support your coaolnsion that the evidence is " weak and uncertain," and on what grounds do you base your assertion that the sentence will never be carried into effect. — I am, &c., Inojjisitivx. July 16th, 1889. [We think the sentence of death will not , .be carried into effect because the voice of the people is against it. — Ed. F.S.]