At-a few minutes: past eight o'clock on Saturday morning Sultan Singh; Chanda Singh,-and Verhava Singh,' aliae-Kerlié Singh, paid: the penalty.of death for vhé murder: of Lushman! Tapa at the Inter: national Dock on the 9th of Ju:
During their incarceration since having been: found guilty, the three criminals prepared themselves for the death which awaited them, and. having beeti- notified that-they: would be hanged on Saturday, the men were partidilarly attentive to the ministrations of a Sikh'priest.. They were all: resigned to their fate, and we understand that on Friday night they admitted the justice of the sentence, Sultan Singh saying it-was he who struck the blow, and the. others assisted: him to tie the body to tha frame. The admission comes great satisfaction to the jury, which convicted them on strong" but! circumstantial evidence-and not less to the polies, whose jory as to the comtnission of the' crime is thus borne out, 'The': condeninedinen r: fased: to take any—stimulant on 'Baturday morning, and ab six-minutes past: eight o'clock the Sikh priest Jed the solemn: procession' from the colis to the scaffold, chanting on the wa: The men had submitted to the pinioning immediately, they. walked firmly to the: scaffold; replying to: the prayers of the private.' Everything -was' in readiness-and: the bolt'was drawn at: nine minutes past: eight'o'olock,..under: three minutes from the time the first man was led: out,. and death in each case was instantaneous, 'The condemned men- met their. death with calm fortitude. There G." D. Pitzipios, acting as Sheriff; Mr. A..G. Maj ing: Justice, and 'Mr. J A. Chandler, Ghiefi*Constable of the gaol,' acting Governor of the" prison. jo" police' were also' ropredented, and' Dr. B. I, Marah attended and pronounced life extinct.
Mr. F..8. A' Bourne, acting ax Coren held an. inquest -at- the gaol at~9.80 aa The Coroner and: representatives of. th Press having-viewed J. A. Chandler stable of the: British gaol. I have just seen three bodies, which I recognise as Chanda Singh, Sultan; Singh, and Sitigh. Isai them hanged at 8 'a.m. this day.
The Coroner said—I find that the three mon; whose bodies' T have just seen, were Bingh;- aiid that' thirty word hanged this Sultin Si igh; Obanda Singh, and Verhiavat morning at 8 mh oder of the Sheriff, in. execution: of the sentence of ' the Ssu 'é-are: informed that the bodies' were' cremated as isthe custom with Indians.
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