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The Officer Commanding the Troops has directed that the 

 above capital sentence shall not be executed until an opportunity 

 has been afforded to His Excellency the Governor in Executive 

 Council to consider whether the clemency of the Crown shall be 

 exercised in each case. 



Extract from 



" The Ceylon Morning Leader," July \2th J 1015. 

 The sentences of death which were passed on the undermentioned 

 prisoners were carried out in the manner stated, at Welikada Gaol, 

 on July loth, 1915 : 



By Shooting : F. P. Samarasinghe. 



By Hanging : Norris Perera, A. A. Don Peiris, W. P. Peter 

 Saram, Don Joronis Amarakoon, Don Karolis Samarasinghe. 



L. A. NORTHCOTE, Captain, 

 D.A.A.G., Ceylon Command, Colombo, 



July nth, 1915. 



Promulgation of Field General Courts-Martial, held at Kandy 

 on July 2nd-3rd, 1915. 

 PRISONER : Attenegedera Kiri Banda. 

 CHARGE: (i) Rioting. The prisoner was found guilty. 

 SENTENCE : Ten years' penal servitude. 



PRISONERS : i. S. Charles Silva. 



2. G. A. Livera Wijewickrame. 



CHARGES: (i) Rioting; (2) Shop-breaking. The two prisoners 



were found guilty. 

 SENTENCE : Two years' imprisonment with hard labour. 



PRISONERS : i. Heen Appuhami. 



2. James Singho. 



3. T. L. Herat. 



CHARGES : (i) Treason; (2) Riotously demolishing a building. The 

 three prisoners were found guilty. 



SENTENCE : Fourteen years' penal servitude. 



PRISONER : Rajapakse, Notary. 



QHARGES : (i) Treason; (2) Riotously demolishing a building; (3) 

 Shop-breaking. The prisoner was found guilty. 



SENTENCE : Penal servitude for life. 



PRISONER : Abeyesinghe. 



CHARGES : (i) Riotously demolishing a building; (2) Shop-breaking. 

 The prisoner was found guilty. 



SENTENCE : Three years' penal servitude. 



PRISONER : M. K. S. P. Jeremanis Perera. 



CHARGES: (i) Rioting; (2) Riotously damaging a house; (3) Rio- 

 tously damaging a house; (4) Rioting; (5) Shop- 

 breaking. The prisoner was found guilty. 



SENTENCE : Fourteen years' penal servitude. 

 PRISONER : F. A. Dissanayaka. 



CHARGES : (i) Rioting; (2) Shop-breaking. The prisoner was found 

 not guilty. 



PRISONER : S. Sivagnanam. 



CHARGE : (i) Sedition. The prisoner was found not guilty. 



