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XXIV.
ORTICA BALLAARATENSIS: SECUNDA.
Out came the Ballaarat Times, Saturday, November 25, 1854. Work was stopped at every hole: the miners left the deep and mobbed together round any reader of the fall report of the—
Trial of
MR. AND MRS. BENTLEY,
Hanse, and Farrel,
for the murder of
James Scobie
Supreme Court, Melbourne.
GUILTY! of Manslaughter.
Mrs. Bentley scot-free.
His Honour considered their conduct wanton and reckless. He should mark his sense of the outrage of which they have been found guilty, by passing on each of them a sentence of THREE (!) YEARS' IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR ON THE ROADS.
GREAT WORKS!
Trial of
Fletcher, M'Intyre, and Westerby,
for
Burning the Eureka Hotel.
Supreme Court, Melbourne.
Criminal Sittings
GUILTY, with a recommendation to mercy!!
The Foreman of the Jury appended the following rider to the verdict:-
"The jury feel, in giving their verdict against the prisoners at the bar, that in all probability, they (the jury) should never have had that painful duty to perform, if those entrusted with the government offices at Ballaarat had done theirs properly."
His Honour said: THE SENTENCE of the Court is, that you, M'Intyre, be confined in H. M. gaol, at Melbourne, for THREE MONThS, but I shall not subject you to labour. (Great works!) You, Fletcher, to four months'; and you, Westerby, to six months' confinement . . . . . . . . . The Executive was sufficently strong to punish those who outrage the law! (Great works at Toorak!)
La vita in grammatica,
Facil declinazione;
La vita poi in pratica,
Storta congiugazione:
Della vita lo spello dal mondo sciolto,
Al mondo vivi, poiché non sei sepolto.
