Petition for mercy from Pithoo, Mangli and Sahju, under sentence of death in the Jubbulpore Central Jail. Commutation of the sentences of death passed on the prisoners to transportation for life in view of grave superstition in which victims were regarded as witches responsible for the prevalence of epidemic, and done to death.

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