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Show The YirjjInius" Survivors. New York, 80. Engineer Knight,' of the irtnumst says t he-original sentence sen-tence ot the court inartiat,at Santiago, was that the entire crew should be hanged at the yard arm, but the Captain Cap-tain of the huirlla CnloUca did not want such a spectacle " made of his vessel and obtained a change of the sentence to death by shooting, find a commutation of the sentence of 17 of the crew to the chain gang. Knight, two quartermasters, and ono of the oilers, were accordingly sentenced to the chain gang for life, and tiie other 13, all of whom were boys, to eight and four years' hard Ldor on the gang. A life sentence of this, kind is regarded as worse than death. |