COLONEL LYNCH SENTENCED.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] London, Jan 24. Justice Willis, as Senior Judge of the Court, delivered an impressive speech in sentencing Lynch. He emphasised the gravity of the crime and sa'd that the prisoner was a citizen of no mean c ; ty, inasmuch as he was born in Australia, which had shown the utmost devotion to the Motherland. The prisoner had sought for his p. ice in gold in the country's darkest hours by joining the ranks of its foes to dethrono Britain and make her name a byword and reproach. He had shed, or done hi* best to shed, his own countrymen's blood. How many wives had been widowed and children orphaned through the contingent he commanded heaven only knew. Misjudging the country, he had lifted a paricidal hand, thinking doubtless that she would shrink from the gigantic struggle or at the worst that peace would bring an amnesty covering his treason, and this against Victoria, the best loved and most deeply honored of all the long "ice of British sovereigns, against hi 3 country, the home of freedom and progress. It is expected that the King will release Lynch after a short imprisonment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 January 1903, Page 4
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198COLONEL LYNCH SENTENCED. Greymouth Evening Star, 26 January 1903, Page 4
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