sentences:  Following a three-day trial the jury, after deliberating for 20 minutes, found her guilty with a recommendation for mercy on account of her youth.The plea for mercy was declined by Governor Anthony Musgrave and she was sentenced to death.On 30 December 1873, dressed in a white frock and carrying a posie of fresh flowers, Elizabeth gave a letter to be opened after her death to her minister, the Reverend James Bickford, and then walked calmly to the gallows.