The Transvaal government were accused of displaying undue leniency towards Constable Jones; the League protested at the reduction of the charge to culpable homicide and his release on ?00 bail, a sum which was less than that typically imposed upon uitlanders for relatively trivial offences.
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:: : I couldn't possibly agree to a ban of that length for an initial sanction, especially for a relatively trivial offence like filing a frivolous request-and particularly since this is an offence that usually attracts no more than a warning at most.
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The frequent incidents prompted " The Perth Gazette " to remark on " the reckless daring of this desperado who sets his life at a pin's fee . . . For the most trivial offence . . . he would take the life of any man who provoked him.
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Only a handful of convicts left any written record and their descriptions ( as quoted by Hazzard and Hughes ) of living and working conditions, food and housing, and, in particular, the punishments given for seemingly trivial offences, are unremittingly horrifying, describing a settlement devoid of all human decency, under the iron rule of the tyrannical autocratic commandants.
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Chenevix-Trench caned sixth-formers for trivial offences against the urgings of the Captain of the School ( head boy ); he caned one editor of the " Eton Chronicle " and backed down after threatening to cane another; and on a later occasion he agreed with the Captain of the School and his housemaster to punish an offender in a formally witnessed ceremony, but then gave a private caning instead without discussing it with them.
