The three long-sentenced convicts (Mak So, Ip Sam, and Young Fuk) charged with ving attempted the life of Robert Henry Craig, assistant superintendent of the Gavi, on the 97th March, and stabbing him, were brought up on 19%h inst. at the Court before the Chief Justice, Criminal Sessions, and tried.' Th soners were allowed to cull cross-exami the witnesses for the prosecution. After a lengthy trial they were found guilty, and the Chief Justice passed sentence of six years' hard labour on the first two prisoners, and of five and a-half veals' hard labour on the third remarking that they were all criminals of the worst type. The sentences will take effect on the completion of those which they were serving before the offence.
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