The Islander
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-12-18
issued: 1913-10-25
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note: p. 4 *mJE ISLANDERS Largest Circulation in the Comox District. VOL. IV., No. 30 THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C., SATURDAY. OCT. 25, 1913 SENTENCES IN LADYSMITH CASES Five Men are Sentenced to Two Years, Twenty-three get One Yeai, & Eleven 3 Months The men who pleaded guilty to a charge of participating in the rioting at Ladysmith on August eleventh and twelfth last, also those who were found guilty on the same charge were sentenced yesterday morning by His Honor Judge Howay, says the Herald, When the sentences were announced a number of women in the gallery, wives or relatives of the prisoners, screamed and became hysterical and had to be removed from the court before the judge could proceed with deliberations. In giving out sentences His Honor said "It is the custom when sentences are given that the judge make but very little comment thereon but in this case I am going to depart from the usual custom for these cases are out of the ordinary and call for a few remarks from me. Let me say to you men before going further that you have been well defended, and this has been shown, not only in the handling of your cases but in the selection of those of you who pleaded guilty or not guilty. Your council has said all that could be said and if I have found you guilty it is not because your council has erred but because you have woven around you a net of circumstances beyond the power of any council to untangle. This was not an ordinary riot. It was not a sudden ebullition of pent up feeling but it shows all down the line a deliberate scheme a designe from one end to the other. The riots at Nanaimo, South Wellington and Ladysmith were all for one purpo-e, were simultaneous and carried out with one line of action. Bombs were thrown, property destroyed and peaceful citizens made to flee for their lives and a persistent state of terrorism indulged in. After the bomb throwing at the Temperance Ho'el parades were formed, evidently for the purpose of showing your numeral strength an…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Cumberland (B.C.)
spatial: Cumberland
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0070315
language: English
lat: 49.6186111
long: -125.0325
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Cumberland, B.C. : Islander Printing and Publishing Co.
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