The record-union., 1896-02-26
admitted to bail in 1900 pounds each

admitted to bail in 1000 pounds each
furnished by themselves.
The transport Victoria, which brought
DR.. Jameson and his party from South
Africa. left Plymouth yesterday and
anchored in the Thames off Purf1eet,
fifteen miles below London, at l p. m.
to-day. A tug ran alongside the steamer
and took off a passenger and landed him
at Firth, two miles above the Victoria's
anchorage. Here the passenger, who
was supposed to be Jameson, took a
train and proceeded to London, where
he arrived at about 5 o'clock. A large
crowd had assembled outside the sta
tion, and as he emerged he was greeted
with enthusiastic cheers and cries of
Bravo, DR.. Jameson" He was fol-
lowed by the crowd from the station to
the Mark Lane station of the under
ground railway, being cheered again
and again. Arrived at the latter station
the passenger was joined by number
of friends, and disappeared from public
view
The enthusiasm of the crowd had been
manifested for the wrong man, for the
passenger, instead of being Dr. Jane
son, was Captain Heaney, an American,
who acted as a scout for DR.. Jameson
in his filibuStering expedition
In the meantime DR.. Jameson and his
officers were taken off the Victoria by
a police launch, which reached Waterloo
pier at 6:30 o'clock. A large crowd had
gathered at the pier, and when Jane
son and his party appeared they were
loudly cheered. The party entered two
omnibuses which conveyed them to the
Bow-street Police Court The crowd
manifested its appreciation of the raid
ers for the entire distance from Water
loo pier to the court.
The party was given a most tumult-
uous welcome by the great crowd that
had gathered about the court. In an
ticipation of DIR. Jameson's arraign-
ment, large crowd Of people, composed
principally of members of the aristoc-
racy, assembled in the courtroom be-
fore noon and awaited his arrival
Seated upon the bench with the Magis-
trates were the Duke of Abercorn, Lord
and Lady Abingdon, General Sir ST.
George, Gerald Foley and Lady Foley
and Viscount Chelsea and Hon. Robert
Arthur Ward, members of the House of
Commons, respectively for Bury, st.
Edmunds and the Crewe division of
Cheshire
The prisoners were promptly ar
raigned before the magistrate upon the
formal charge of having made war
upon a friendly State SO carried
away were the people in the courtroom
by their enthusiasm that the magis-
trate and court officers were unable to
put a stop to the demonstration. After
fca 1i1
adjourned the examination for FORT
night, releasing Jameson and the others
upon their own recognizance of f2,000
each.
The exact charge preferred against
the prisoners was thai 1.-The defendants
in the month of December, 1895, in
South Africa, within her majestys do
minions, without license of her mai
esty, did willfully prepare a military
expedition to proceed against the do
minions OF a certain friendly State, to
wit: the South African Republic, con-
trary to the provisions of the Foreign
Enlistment Act of 1870"
After bare evidence of the arrest Of
the prisoners had been submitted and
formal statements had been made by
counsel relative to the conduct of the
case, the magistrate, S1f JOnn Br1QSe,
remarked: mo graver charge could be
brought against these men. 1t is a
crime of the highest possible gravity,
and must be so regarded by every per-
sons who considers the risk of per-
forming the offense. 1t involves first,
the danger of a battle at the time in
which many lives may be lost and many
homes desolated, beside the greater
danger, the offense being continued, of
producing a state of war between coun-
tries at amity with one another
After deciding on the amount of
bail to be furnished, Sir John Bridge
addressed the prisoners, begging them
for their own sakes and the sake of the
country to absent themselves from any
place where their presence would
arouse public excitement. He further
asked them not to assemble together
more than they were obliged to do, and
TO avoid anything that might possibly
disturb the public peace. Both re-
quests were remarkable, coming from
a Judge of the bench to defendants be-
fore him, and showed very decidedly
that public opinion was strongly in
favor of the accused, and that fears
are entertained of a public demonstra-
tion.