THE RAND REVOLT.
ATTACK ON BRAKPAN MINE.
PARTICIPANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH. Capetown, Dee. 6. The trial has ended at Johannesburg of Garnsworthy, thq well-known miner and seven others, who were charged with murder in connection with the attack on the Brnkpan mine during the revolution, when a number of defendders of the mine were killed. All accused wore sentenced to death. Three were virtually recommended to mercy.
There was a great crowd outside tho court awaiting the result, but. no demonstration took place. After the verdiet" Garnsworthy shouted protestations and denounced two witnesses who had turned King’s evidence.
Tho pronouncement of the sentences was greeted with sobbing by women, and there was a noisy farewell demonstration by relatives and friends of the condemned men.—(A. and N,Z.j
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 300, 7 December 1922, Page 5
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