"Madrid, Aug, 24.
Hundreds of people, inchudine many' women, waked: hours secure adaisslon tothe Palace lot Justice fo hear the tral of Sen. juno, the first Sy sh General to foe tried in' the Civil Court for re. belle, for which' the public pro-conteees Saed hac the' oats Gen. Sanjurjo himself presented pressed as he Rored the Palace rela py figure iresend 108)
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escorted by police and surrounded Sys friends who, however, were not' present in out nly "permuted to. rem 'Madrid was all agee with excitement and young enthusiastic socialists had plastered the walls. wi flaming red posters depicting a figure which, symbolished the end of a century's triumph of militar' Justice over civil justice, ties were "inundated with telegrams demanding the death of General Sanjurjo, although it understood that the president shares tha scialsta" ohietion to capital punishment on principle. Aug. 26.
After deliberating for 18 hou: the Court, consisting of six Judges of the Supreme Court, which was trying the leaders of ' the recent monarchist rising in Spain, senftenced Gen. Sanjurjo Gen. Herranz to. life ment and, Lieut. Col.
12 years' imprisonment.
Capt. Tusto Sanjurjo, the general's son was acquitted.
Later.
Gen, Sanjurjo has been re-brieved. Immediately after the ver-Jdict, one of the judges went to the riltary prison, presumably to read the sentence tothe prisoner. A recommendation for a reprieve mui be presented within 48 hours to be effective, but long before this time had elapsed the" Cabinet had re-Jcommended that the President should commute the sentence to one of life imprisonment.
Gen. Sanjurjo ly known as "Spain's bravest man" and shoals of petitions poured in to the President and Premier for his reprieve.
The general will most probably be deported to a remote island in the Spanish colonies—Reuter, Barcelona, Aug. 25.
Plot follows plot in Spain. The latest sensational development the arrest of the Austrian Archduke Charles of Hapsburg and Bourbon, who is a son of the late Archduke Leopold, at Barcelona.—Reuter.
Madrid, Aug. 26.
Gen. Sanjurjo arrived this morn-jing at the Dueso penal settlement, near Santander, after his sentence Jof death had been commuted. to sonment. for" life. He was hurried out of Madrid this morn ing at dave. capt. at the position of the police, and his nce og stock-broker on the Bargelona Exchange has been with-
Gen. Sanjurjo will serve in effect Aug. }93° years in prison. Under Spanish law, the term life imprison in is qualified by measuring that of Jesus Christ who reportedly lived 33. years.
The General Labour Union, and Jother affiliated Soci tions, yesterday congratulated President Zamora on his act in granting. clemency to. the officer.
Sanjurjo, dressed in prison garb marked "with the number of his cell, has entered the customary solitary confinement for an-eight-day period. At the end of that time will have the usual privilege of walking in the prison compound.—vas,
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