No. 18

With reference to the 7th paragraph of my Despatch No: 16, of the
21st Instant, informing Your Grace that three men and one woman of
the Cowitchan Tribe, viz: Thalaston, Oalitza, Stalchum, and Thask 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
23rd 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.