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Show xJeuUi SejUt;noe of Fillpluo Priest Commuted. Com-muted. The Filipino priest Deposoy was recently re-cently sentenced by courtmartial to the penalty of death for the murder of certain of his countrymen who favored the Americans. Out of respect, however, how-ever, to the condemned man's calling and the great religious body to which he belonged and most unworthily represented. rep-resented. General Chaffee has commuted com-muted his sentence to twenty years' imprisonment. General Chaffee desires it to be understood that the leniency nexercised 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. |