With reference to the 7 paragraph of my Despatch No: 16, of the
21 Instant, informing Your Grace that three men and one woman of
the Cowitchan Tribe, viz: , , ,
and
and had
been tried at a special Assize and found guilty of the murder of
William Brady I have now to report to Your Grace that the three men
were publicly hanged in front of the
Victoria Gaol on Saturday the
23 Instant at 7 O'clock in the morning.
2. The Jury on this trial recommended
Thask, the woman to mercy, and the
Chief Justice having concurred in that recommendation I commuted

the
sentence against her to imprisonment for life.