BEYOND THE DOMINION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 154, 10 May 1909, Page 5

BEYOND THE DOMINION.

SYDNEY, May 6.

The triab of the men charged with rioting and inciting the strikers at Broken Hill to violence in Januarylast is still proceeding at Albury. Stokes and May were found guilty of rioting, the former receiving a sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard labour and the latter two vear.4.

The jury had recommended the pris-oncr* to mercy owing to the excitement prevailing at the time. Mr. Ju-tice Pring, in sentencing them, siid (hat the men at Broken Hill had been misled by Tom Mann* and some day they would find oul that he was their worst cnemv.

"He lives." continued the judge, "on keeping up strife, and the sooner you aw.-ikc to the fact that this agitator, who lives upon your hard earnings, is yotif enemy the better for you." Holland, a Socialist, was found guiltv of using seditious language at Broken Hill.

CALCUTTA, May 7. The triitl has been concluded at Aliporc of tho 33 Bengalis who were arrested in May last on a charge of being implicated in a widespread anarchist conspiracy. Baren Ghose, brother of Arabindo Ghose, Cambridge graduate, who confessed to throwing the bomb which killed Mrs Kennedy, and Dutt, who prepared the bombs with whjt'h Mrs Kennedy was killed and the lives of others* attempted, were sentenced to death, and some of the others to transportation for life or imprisonment ranging from one to ten years. Arabindo Ghose and the rest of the accused were acquitted. Judge Bcachcroft held that Baren Ghose's confession linked up the Muzaa If a pur outrage and the attempts on Sir Andrew Fraser, Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, and the Mayor of Chandernaogre, with the conspiracy for collecting arms for military drill, and making bombs with a wide fire zone for street fighting all of which indicated an intention to wage war against the King.

LONDON. May 7

Seven of the prisoners«found guilty at the Aliporc have been sentenced to transportation for life. They will probably appeal a&ainst the sentence. The Indian Press has reserved its comments on the sentences.

The Nationalists are delighted at the acquittal of Arabindo Ghose.