Show death sentence of rill pino priest corn muted the priest was re bently sentenced by to the penalty 0 death for the murder of certain of his coun aymen who favored the americans out of respect however to the condemned man s calling and the great ous body to which he belonged and most unworthily represented general chaffee has commuted h s sentence to twenty years imprisonment general chaffee desires it to be understood that the 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 sacred and exalted this may be as protection against crimes committed |