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Show Death eeetenee of rillia Pr-el Ooaa- Tha Filipino prleat Pepoaoy waa recently re-cently sentenced by courtniarllal to tha penalty of death for tha murder of certain of hie countrymen who favored the Americana. Out of reaped, how-aver, how-aver, to tha condemned man 'a calling and the great rellgioua body to which he belonged and moat unworthily rep-resented, rep-resented, (Icneral Chaffee haa coin muted hla acute nee to twenty year' Imprisonment. General Cha free dcalrei It to he underatooil that the leniency Sxvrctaed In the caae cannot he known a a precedent, and that no person In the laland can be permitted to plead his ofllce, however sacred and exalted thia may be, aa protection against Crimea oommlttcd. |