DEATH FOR TREASON.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4872, 26 January 1903, Page 5

DEATH FOR TREASON.

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COLONEL LYNCH CONDEMNED. SPEECH BY THE SENIOR JUDGE. LONDON, January 23Colonel Lynch, M.P. for Galway, who hail been tried for high treason in taking part in tiio Boer war against Great Britain, lias been found guilty by tho Court (consisting of Lor.l Chief Justice Alvorstcmo and Justices Sir r \ifreil Wilis and Sir A. Moseley Chauneil), and sentenced to death. (Received January 25, 4.53 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. Justice Sir Alfred Wills, as senior Judge ef tho Court, delivered an impressive specdi in sentencing tlio prisoner. lio emphasised tho gravity of tiio ertlho, and said tiio prisoner was a citizen of no mean city, inasmuch as ho was hern in Australia, a country which load shown tho utmost devotion to tho Motherland. Tlio prisoner, continued Sir Alfred, had sought for tlio price of gold, in tiio country’s darkest hour, by joining tlio ranks of her fees, to dethrone Groat Britain and make her'name a by-word and n, reproach. Ho had shed, or done ids hast to shed, his own countrymen's blood. How many wives had been widowed or children orphaned through tho contingent which ho had commanded Heaven only know. Sir Alfred Wills went on to say that tlio prisoner, misjudging his country, had lifted his paricidal hand, thinking doubtless that Britain would shrink from her gigantic struggle, or, at tho worst, that peaco would bring an amnesty covering his treason. “ And tins,” concluded tiio learned Judge, “ against Victoria, tlio heist-b-levod and most deeply honoured of all tiio long lino of British Sovereigns, and against his own country, tho homo of freedom and progress.” It is expected tho King will release Lynch after a short imprisonment.