Show death sentence of rill pino arlit corn com muted mated the filipino priest was recently sentenced by court martial to the penalty of 0 death tor for the murder of certain of 0 his countrymen who favored tile the americans out ot of respect however to the condemned mans calling and the great religious body to which he belonged and most unworthily represented general chaffee has commuted his sentence to twenty years tears imprisonment general chaffee desires desire a it to lo be understood that the I 1 leniency exercised in the case cannot be known as a precedent and that no person in the island can be permitted to plead his office however boweter sacred and exalted this may be as protection against crimes committed |