THE PRESS AND THE COURT MARTIAL.
Sydney, this daj^.
The Sydney "Daily Telegraph" criticises the constitution of the Cciurt of Enquiry on the mutiny on H.M.s. Egeria as A : distinctly unfair and partisan, It /renders even the approach to even - handed justice designed an impossibility. The charge against Allen was absurd. They describe the mutiny as a travastic trial. The sentence of five years' penal servitude was passed for an offence which any civil court would have considered met by a month's imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1890, Page 8
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