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LVNCH'S SENTENCE. THE JHDQB'B REMARKS, PROBtBLE RELEASE SHORTLY. PER PRESS ABBOOIATTON, London, January 23. Lynch was found guilty and wm s'jntenc.d to death. Received 25,4.5S pm. London, January 24. Mr Justi-e Wills', aa senior judge of the court, dtlivered an impreisive speech in sentenoing Lynch. He emphtsiied the gravity of the crime, and Slid that the prismsr was a oitizen of no mean city, ioasmuch as he was born in Australia, which had *hown the utmost devetion to the Motherland, Prisoner had sought for the price of gold, in his country's dirkest hour by j lining the ranks of her foes, to dethrone Britain and make her nime i byeword and reproach. He had shed, or done his best to shed, his own oountrymen's blood. How many wives had been widdowed "and children orphaned through the contingent he commanded Heavtn only knew. Misjudging hie country, he had lifted a paricidtl hand, thinking, doubtless, she would shrink from the gigantio strugg'e, or, at worst, p ace would bring ao amnesty covering his treason. And this was dooe agunafe Qiesn Victoria -the best beloved and most de ply honoured of all ths long line of British Sovereigns—and against his country, the home of freed im and progress.
It is eipjc'edtbe £'"ng will rdeas* Lynch after 9 term of imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1903, Page 2
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224CABLE NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1903, Page 2
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