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The following account of the Old Bailey proceedings is furnished by our crime and justice correspondent Mr Edgar Ellis.

Dramatic events in the Old Bailey this morning as the Attorney-General moved for a Writ of Mandamus in the Queen’s Bench, calling upon the Governor of Newgate Prison to show cause why the original warrants of execution should not be carried out against the convicted dynamite conspirators Quill and Sayers, notwithstanding the Home Secretary’s purported commutation.

An at times heated debate took place during the lengthy hearing with the Attorney-General arguing that while diplomatic necessity rightly paused the gallows for the foreign nationals involved in the conspiracy, proof was now in hand that Messrs Quill and Sayers wilfully misled the Home Office regarding their orchestrating role in the dynamite plot. That their commutation was obtained by a fraud upon the Royal Prerogative, and that it must therefore be declared void.

In a move that brought cheers from the gallery, Judge Reinhold ruled the Home Secretary’s attempted to exercise the Royal Prerogative to commute the death sentences of the two infamous dynamite conspirators, Messrs Quill and Sayers unconstitutional, effectively reinstating the original, severe sentences.

In the dramatic ruling, Judge Reinhold stated: “The executive cannot usurp the supremacy of the law under the guise of royal clemency. The commutation is nullified, and the law must take its course.”

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Dr Foedemere, leader of the Dynamite Conspirators was yesterday transferred from his cell at Newgate Prison to a ward in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.

Prominent alienist Dr John Charles Bucknill who had examined Foedemere on several occasions during his stay at Newgate, stated that the criminal mastermind had developed a serious monomania of perception. He observed that this maladaptive obsession, combined with the patient’s prodigious mesmeric powers, had on several occasions caused regrettable and unfortunate excitement in several of the other prisoners.

Dr Bucknill went on to say that without a rigorous and targeted program of treatment, the malady would inevitably and perhaps rapidly become a danger to both prison staff and other prisoners.

Broadmoor Medical Superintendent Dr William Orange was at pains to stress that the move to his institution in no way represented a lessening of the sentence handed down to the lead conspirator.

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