Mr.Lionel Phillips, Colonel Rhodes (brother of Mr.
Cecil Rhodes), George Farrar, and Mr.Hammond, the American engineer, were condemned to death, a sentence which was afterwards commuted to the payment of an enormous fine.

The other prisoners were condemned to two years' imprisonment, with a fine of 2000 pounds each.

The imprisonment was of the most arduous and trying sort, and was embittered by the harshness of the gaoler, Du Plessis.

One of the unfortunate men cut his throat, and several fell seriously ill, the diet and the sanitary conditions being equally unhealthy.

At last at the end of May all the prisoners but six were released.