This sentiment few were at any pains to conceal; but as
the poorer and more ignorant classes can be handled with greater
impunity than those who are intelligent and have the means of self-
defence, Mr. Justice Child, the very day after the tragedy, and
without waiting for the pro forma official inquiry into the tragedy
in which he bore so conspicuous a part, actually caused to be
arrested, sat to try and sent to hard labour, persons whom the
police, in obedience to his positive injunctions, had reported to him
as having condemned the shooting down of the immigrants! Those who
were arrested and thus summarily punished had, of course, no means of
self-protection; and as the case is typical of others, as
illustrative of "justice-made law" applied to "subject races" in a
British colony, Mr. Froude is free to accept it, or not, in
corroboration of his unqualified panegyrics.
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MR. GROVE HUMPHREY CHAPMAN, S.J.P.
As Stipendary Magistrate of this self-same San Fernando district,
Grove Humphrey Chapman, Esquire (another English barrister), was the
immediate predecessor of Mr. Child. More humane than Mr.
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