 | Thomas Rice Holmes - 1888 - 644 páginas
...Special Commissioners, each one of whom had been invested by the Supreme Government with full powers of life and death. These judges were in no mood to...cigars, and look on at the convulsive struggles of the victims. Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, a civilian whose house had been gutted by the mutineers, and... | |
 | Thomas Rice Holmes - 1904 - 732 páginas
...Special Commissioners, each one of whom had been invested by the Supreme Government with full powers of life and death. These judges were in no mood to...gallows was erected in a conspicuous place in the city j and five or six culprits were hanged every day. English officers used to sit by, puffing at their... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 712 páginas
...condemned, and almost all who were condemned were sentenced to death. A four-square gallows was erected hi a conspicuous place in the city, and five or six culprits...every day. English officers used to sit by, puffing at then- cigars, and look on at the convulsive struggles of these victims. l More than three thousand... | |
 | Edward John Thompson - 1926 - 158 páginas
...held in great dread here by the natives, and he is every day trying and hanging all he can catch." 9 " These judges were in no mood to show mercy. Almost...all who were tried were condemned ; and almost all 5 A Lady's Escape from Giualior, p. a12. 6 Delhi fell on I4th September 1857. 7 A Lady's Escape from... | |
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... Military Governor had been appointed ; but he could do little to restrain the passions of those who surrounded him. Natives were brought forward in batches to be tried by a Military Commission or by Special Commissioners, each one of whom had been... 