The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-11-10 00:00:00

7HE ARMSIRONO CASE.

SUMMING 111. AND VICHIIIiT.

Al the Central Criminal Court on Salimlay morn.
ing. before Mr. .I.egiee hopes, the trial wal 444444 .41
.4 34r. W. T. Sulu! (editor of the P.. 11 man ,;,,,tv.)
Mr. :lampoon Jac.peol, %I r. Bramwell Booth (of the
Salvation Army), and Relseect Jarrett, charged with
being amoerned in the aleluction ..1 Elira Arue4rong.
Another defendant, Madame Teethe, Mourey, iv not
include...l in the charge c.mxpirary 41 abduct, hut will
he tried later on for an alleged indecent mutat upon
the child.
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Juatiee Lopes annulled up the ea. to tlw
jury, askimt them to hear in Mind tim material and
main quisttion —NVati the child taken AW.y Ag.jlVit
the will f tho father? Timc i. the material question,
and it the in one to which CAII your p.articular atten•
tion.

The jury retired at twenty minutest hmr o'clock
to rnnaider their venliet, nn4l they returned at twenty
minutes to moven n'el.tok, having been absent exactly
three holm.

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The Clerk of the Arraignel(to the jury) : Are you
all agmed "-The Foreman: We are. May we ask the
second name of Jarret shall be called first.
-The Judge : No. I think not. I woeld
, rather the opiestions stand AOl they are. you
niust answer the ipeettiom rei they am given.
-The Clerk of the Arraigns treading the first qiim-
the]) : Did Stead and Jarrett or either if them take
Eliza Armstrong nut of the possession of her lath,
and againet his will !-The Foreman : Yis, he did.
Stead diel not hare the commit of the hither to use
her as ha did.-The Judge Did Jarrett. take the girl
out of the o mieesion iif the father, and against his
will ?-The F 111.0111311 : Msi,l Jarrett - Stead was
entirely misled by Jarrett.--The Judge : That in not
the iiiimtion. I will pet it ngi.n. Did Jarrett take
the girl out of the 110..1,6..11 of the father, and against
lii. will ?-The Foreman : my lord.--The
Judge : Did Stead take EIiZA Arneitrong out of the
pootaession and against the will of the hither ?—Tle•
Foreman : Yes.—The Ilerk id the Arraign. :
Did Jarrett by falsely representing that ahe wanted
the girl A% A aervatit inolime the mother to let her if,. !
-Ti..' Foreman : We are not agreed, my lord.-The
Clerk of the Arraigns: lb.! the mother coneent to her
going for immoral pu sews" --Ti,, Foreman : Ni,.
Applim.., which was
,at omen supproseesll.-The
oludgo• : The fourth questeei, act., whether the taking
the girl for immoral purposes wee with the consent of
the mother, is rendered unneceesary hy the other
answers, ea it depended upon them. -The Clerk of
the Arraigns • Wax Iheith a party te the taking of
Elira Arinstro mg out of the IF VIAPIPIOn lif her father!
- The 11,relAAR : No. - The Clerk of the
Arraign. Was Jecipirs a party to the tak-
ing of Elise Armstrong out of the poeseission
of her father I - The Foreman : No. -
The Judge :It iii not almilutely neceesary, but I
should I. glad if you could return me an answer to
question No. 3. It in more aatisfactory that there
should he an answer, and I think I must ask you to
give one -Several Junin. : We have already been
locked up for three hours and cftnnot agree. (Laugh-
ter)...-'The Judge (smiling) : That is not very long in
• criminal case. We have, hewever, an answer to the
first and other quentions, and I hardly think it is
net... Nary. What do you nay, Mr. Poland 1-Mr.
Poland : I do not think it is.-The Foreman : We
have a recommendation.-The Judge: I meat tell you
that that is a verdict if guilty morainal Stead and
Jarrett. You must find that. -The Fore:mem yo,
we do find that verdict. W.. do not think that 81,-d
had the consent of the father for the nes of the child
to which he put her, and that he was misled hy Jarrett.
The Jury trust that the (iiivernment will mature the
proper administration of the Act recently paired for
, the protection of young girls and children.-Thri
I Judge: I quite agree with you in that. The verdict
returned, then, amounts to a verdict of guilty iinst
Stead and Jarrett, and of not Frailty against Booth I
and Jacques. I now will hand to you the letter I
addrem4 So the foreman which I mentioned on Thure- I
day, I think it should not be passed by without some I
notice, and after you have seen it I propene to hand it
In the Treasury to do what may be thought right in 1
the matter. -The letter WWI handed to the foreman,
and afterwards was given into the possession of Mr.
Poland PA representing tho Treasury-The Judge: I
understand you have another indictment which will !
have to he tried, and which includes another perion.
Madame Moorey. That h.IWO ver cannot be tried hef ore '
Tueeday.-Mr. l'oland : That in the CAW 14 indecent as•
•aillt, in whichSteact,Jaequea, Jarrett, and Mmirey are
inilicte.l.-The Judge : Then the Court will adjourn
until Tuesday, and I aliall not pima sentence in thin
ease until the indictment in triod.-Mr. Poland : If I
may venture to any so, my lord, that will Ito the most
convenient coarse-The Foreman was understood to
pay that the jury desired to recoil iiiii Mr. Stead
t.• mercy.- The Judge Raid that that would strengthen '
and enforce the course he should take. Tlllllllll4liilM
was tint as to Mr. Strait's motives- es no ono doubted
them - hut whether he lied broken the law. The
recmmiliendation would lie taken into con•idemtiou.
lie would auegeet that the torment Jury should not
he put to the trouble of attending again no Tuesday
to try the second case, but that another jury ahould
he empanelled.-Mr. Poland amid this should be
done.

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The Judge said that during the year, he had been
on the bench he had never had before him a jury
who had paid mon., attention to a case than the
preaent jury had. Ile directed that the jmer.
nholdd he exempted from fterviee ammo cotulider.,
able time.
Al! PAM dulendanta wore a Howe bail.

TIIR witraar) It.
Angelina has a hat
IVith wings on every side;
Slaughter ,of the innocents
Tilos° pretty Wings supplied.
Sign of barbarity,
Sign of vulgarity—
That winged hat.
The little bird of beauty horn,
With joy in every tnfition,
1:y erii.•l hai141.4 in 141:1111 and torli n
Vllll4fir Wllllll 311,1 11,otjatn.
it. the harivirity,
)13. tIo• illgarity
That wingill hat.
Itridget, t.... like Angelina.
Wlllllll 3 wingill 11161,
C.,1,1111,1 !owl. •he s ,plite
Her gait, it tells you that.
Tylv! id vulgari.ty,
Type uf barbarity.
That wing‘d has,