AN ASTONISHING ATTITUDE.
Tho Home Secretary in accepting the report adopts aya v position whidh we feel bound to describe as astonishing. He declares that, thougn Mr. Edalji is not entitled^ to a free pardon according to tho principles which havo for many years governed the exercise of the prerogative oi mercy, he yet not only r.dvises tho granting of a free pardon, but relieves him from his disqualification as a solicitor. Nevertheless, he decides that the case is not one in which any grant of compensation can be made. The decision is thorougly unsatisfactory, and indeed unjust, from every point of view. 1 If Mr. Ednlji did not commit the offence with which he was charged, as it is clear the commission entrusted with the investigation consider ho did not, then lie he is an innocent man who has suffered a grievous wrong, and who ought to receive compensation for that wrong. To charge him with having written tho letters seems to us to be entirely irrelevant. i Even- granted that the evidence that he wrote the letters is overwhelming, we must never forget that he was not charged with that offence, but with another.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 13
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196AN ASTONISHING ATTITUDE. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 13
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