The four Reform leaders, who had borne themselves during this trying time in a brave and fearless manner, then stepped out of the dock firmly and unhesitatingly, and were taken to the Pretoria jail.
The other fifty-nine prisoners were then called to the bar and sentenced each to pay a fine of ten thousand dollars, and to suffer two years' imprisonment.
Thus ended this remarkable trial, a judicial trial unprecedented in the annals of jurisprudence.
A mockery of justice and a travesty upon civilisation.[[9]]
Footnotes:
[9] The foregoing regarding the trial and sentence of the Reformers is from information derived from eye-witnesses and the local Press.
XI
By a strange providence Betty and I missed the early train. I had not reckoned on the delay in dressing which sorrow and fatigue could occasion.