The Sentencing of Lynch

Grey River Argus, Volume 57, Issue 10520, 26 January 1903, Page 3

The Sentencing of Lynch

An Impressive Address

The King Likely to Pardon Him (pee press association.) (by blbotric tblegra.p?— -copyright. (Received at 4 45 p m.) London, Jan 24. Justice Willis, as senior Judge of the Court, delivered an impressive speech ia sentencing Lynch. He emphasised the gravity of the crime and said that the prisoner was a citizen of no mean city, inasmuch as he was born in Australia, which had shown the utmost devotion to the Motherland. The prisoner had sought for his price in gold in the country'** darkest hour by joining the ranks of its fees to dethrone Britain and make her name a byword and reproach. He had shed, or done his best to shed, his own countrymen's blood. How many wives had been widowed and children orphaned through the contingent he commanded haaren only knew. Misjudging the conntry, he had lifted a paricidal hand, thinking doubtless that she would shrink from the gigantic struggle or at the worst that peace would bring an amnesty covering his treason, and this against Victoria, the best loved and most deeply honored of all the long line of British sovereigns, against his country, the home of freedom and progress. It is expected that the King will release Lynch after a short imprisonment.