The Jury found Teale, Sykes, Bone, and Bentcliffe Guilty of Manslaughter, and recommended Bentcliffe to mercy; and they found Booth and Savage Not Guilty.
His Lordship, in passing sentence, said:
John Teale, William Sykes, Henry Bentcliffe, and John Bone, the jury, have not found you guilty of murder, but of manslaughter. They have taken a very merciful view indeed of your case. Upon them, not upon me, is the responsibility of that verdict. You have the benefit of it, but as respects two of you at least, I doubt if there is any of your fellow subjects competent to form an opinion on the evidence, who would not upon that evidence have been satisfied if a verdict of wilful murder had been returned against you. I am saved that most painful of duties - the duty of passing sentence of death upon fellow creatures, but it is my duty to pass a most severe sentence upon you.
The sentence upon you John Teale, and upon you, William Sykes, is that you be kept in penal servitude for your lives; and upon you Henry Bone and John Bentclffe that you each be kept in penal servitude for twenty years.
The court was then adjourned to the 9th of January.