Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12
The Scotch Peer Who Is Charged
With C~riminaIIy Assaulting
Young Girls.
This IS the Outcome ofthe Reyei1-
tons Made by the Pail
Mall Gazette.
Tho Earl's Friends are Indignant %
Think He Could Not Content
Himself with Higher
Game"
The Earl of GaIIoway's Trial.

New York, Oct. "A London cable
avs The forthcoming trial Of Baron
Stuart, better known by his title Of the
Earl of Galloway, and who is charged
with having criminally assaulted a num-
Der of young girls who have barely
reached their teens, promises TO create
a sensation hat will eclipse the excite
ment occasioned a few years ago by the
publication in the Pail Mall Gazette OF
Editor Stead's series of articles under
the caption, THE Maiden's Tribute to
Modern Babylon" and which resulted
in the doughty journalists incarcera-
ton in prison for a brief period. Sin,
gularly enough the charges against tho
hoary-headed aristocratare framed under
an additional chapter OF the legal code
which was passed by parliament as a
direct outcome Of the editors disclos-
ures. 1t is very generally understood,
moreover, that il was this same peer OF
the realm who was referred to in N OF
the chapters Of the expose in question,
as having an agreement with a prOcur-
ess by which he was 90 be supplied with
q designated number Of virgins Of ten
der years each month. Fertile as have
been the London crops of immortality
aud scandal for q score Of years, tho
present case promises 10 be unparalleled
and at the clubs as well as in aristo-
cratic circles generally IL Is ac-
tually furnishing more food for
gossip than was produced by the
ever celebrated Mordaunt divorce case,
when the heir apparent 70 the throne
was compelled to go into the witness
box and declare upon his honor IS the
future king of England Tin the provi-
dence of Cod and the usual oath being
omitted; that his relations with the
wife Of his erstwhile boon companion
bad been in strict accordance with the
ethics of honor; and that, further, upon
his honor as a man and a gentleman, his
alleged attachment for the unfortunate
wife, then pining away in a mad house,
was purely platonic. The present case
presents TIE spectacle Of one OF the
most wealthy peers of the realm, with
vast estates aud . magnificent rent
roll, living in a condition of splendor
second only TO that of royalty itself.
the brother-in-law Of the marquis OF
Salisbury, prime minister Of England, a
member Of the governing boards Of half
a dozen OF the most exclusive clubs in
the country; so deyout a churchman as
70 receive the signal recognition OF
being appointed lord high commissioner
20 the general assembly of the church
Of Scotland, . man OF learning and an
orator who has never failed 70 com
mand attention in the house OF lords.
arraigned like a ommon criminal
TO stand trial for an otense
that betrays an utter lack
of moral attributes. Naturally enough
public sentiment is dead against him
His W immediate circle, people Of
title who consider an appearance as co
respondent in a divorce case little moro
than 4 good joke, are indignant because
the earl could not content himself with
higher game," TO quote an expression
used at a fashionable club the other
evening, while the working classes, and
especially the social democratic element
find in the affair good material for re
newed denunciation of the upper
classes and are vigorously demanding
that the full measure of justice be
awarded in the case. Such offenses wheI
perpetrated by n of their own number
the say, are visited with the utmost
Sc city of the law, even in the face o.
doubtful evidence or mitigating circum
stances; and no exception should b.
made in favor of blue blood. The max
imum punishment in the event of con
viction is twenty years penal servitudt
upon each Indictment. 1t Is reported
that retainers of S10o, 600 each have
been offered in behalf Of the defense u
Sir Richard Webster and Sir Charlie.
Russell, respectively Encouragement
and ex-attorney-general.