RAND REVOLT.
-—. —4 EIGHT MORE DEATH SENTENCES. (By Cable—Press (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) CAPE TOWN, December 6. The trial has ended at Johannesburg of Garnsworthy, a well-known miner, and seven others, who are charged with murder ins connexion with the attack On the Brakpan mine during the revolution, when a number of defenders of the mine were killed. All the accused were sentenced 10 death. Three were virtually recommended to mercy. There was a great crowd outside the Court awaiting the result, but no demonstration took place, After the verdict Garnssrorthy shouted protestations, and denounced two witnesses who had turned King's evidence. The pronouncement of the sentences was greeted with sobbing by women, and a noisy farewell demonstration by relatives and frien'ds of the condemned men took place.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17632, 8 December 1922, Page 13
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129RAND REVOLT. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17632, 8 December 1922, Page 13
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