SOUTH AFRICA.
VISCOUNT GLADSTONE’S LENIENCY.
A JOURNALISTIC. PROTEST.
(.UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION--COPYRIGHT.] (Received Jan. 26, 9.25 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Jan. 26.
The Johannesburg “Star” says that a Native confessed to rape, and the Judge said he was unable to hold out hope of reprieve. The information available to the public does not disclose any palliating circumstances. The Rhodesian law provides the death penalty in the case of a Native convicted of an attempt alone. The “‘Star” adds that Viscount Gladstone has failed to appreciate the conditions oi the country.
[A cable message published yesterday stated that the whole population of Buluwayo met and protested against the Governor-General reprieving a native sentenced to death for assaulting a white woman. One speaker pointed out that if Lord Gladstone assumed the conditions in South Africa were the same as in England be must be brought to a proper appreciation of the facts, otherwise the whites would take the law into their own hands.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3129, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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158SOUTH AFRICA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3129, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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