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LEADERS ALL SENTENCED.
FIFTEEN MONTHS FOR JAMESON
AND SHORTER TERMS FOR
THE OTHERS.
NO LONGER A MATTER OFF ROMANCE
Members of the Raider Party Hold
Ing English Commissions to Be
COurt-MartiaIeds


kins, in the queens bench division of
the high court of justice, today, the
trial of DR.. jameson, Maj. Sir John
Willoughby, Col. R. Grey, Col. H. F.
White, Maj. r. White and Capt.
Henry F. Coventry, charged with the
violation of the neutrality laws in in
vading territory of the South African
republic was resumed. The court was
packed with people in anticipation Of
the conclusion of this celebrated case.
Arguments having been concluded
yesterday, the chief justice began his
summing up today. Lord Russelrs re-
marks were distinctly hostile to the de-
PENDANTS. He began by pointing out
that the essential facts in the case
against the prisoners had not been con-
tested and that there was no doubt in
regard to their having taken part in
or abetted the proceedings at Pitsani
and Mafeking, where the invading
forces were mustered, preparatory to
entering the Transyaal It was en-
tirely unimportant, in the opinion of
Lord Russell, whether the foreign en-
listment act had been proclaimed at
the places named, In 1895. There was
no doubt, he said, that the expedition
was of a military character, and
whether it was aimed to overthrow the
Transvaal government or to force
change of the laws in the republic, in
the interests Of others, it was equally
an expedition against a friendly state.
The attendance at the trial of DR..
Jameson and his associates was never
so large as today, and the greatest in
terest was manifested in the proceed
ings. The opening part of Lord Rus
sells summing up, however, and his
two hours recapitulation of the evil
dence were tiresome,5 and even DR.. jam
eson and the other defendants dozed at
times. Sir Edward Clarke alone show
ed any signs of nervousness. AS for
the jury, composed with two exceptions
of elderly men, there was no doubling
that they were bored. The ladies. of
whom there were a great number in
the court room. famed themselves
Wear1ly trying to catch glimpses Of the
defendants. The latter, while the il1rv
was out, retired to the tea room. where
they held a reception of their lady ac-
quatntances and relatives, all of whom
had high hopes of the acquittal of the
prisoners
The jury, after having retired at
about 4:3O, returned about 5:24 and the
defendants were hastily summoned to
take their places. The judges came in
five minutes later and the jurymen
gave an affirmative answer to all the
questions which had been propounded
to them by the chief justice; but they
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turbances at johannesburg were pro-
vocative. Lord Russell then announc-
ed that their answers were equivalent
TO a verdict of guilty. The foreman
said that they were not unanimous
upon that point, but his lordship re-
peated his explanation and the iury
then consulted together for about three
minutes and rendered a
VERDICT OF GUILTY.
DR.. jameson and his co-defendants
were apparently unmoved. Sir Edward
Clarke asked the courts disposition
to move for a new trial. When the
judges returned, Sir Edward Clarke
said that in view of the verdict render
ed, the defendants refused to instruct
for new trial and expressed a desire
to settle the case now.
In passing sentence Lord Russell
said the verdict was. given on evidence
which no reasonable man would be
able to disregard. All the defendants.
ne added were men Of intelligence
holding positions under the queen. and
their crime had the gravest conse-
quences, including death to some and
injury to others, while the future con-
sequences of their crime no one was
n
lord chief justice said that although
they all took part in the raid, the court
must distinguish between them in the
punishment awarded for their guilt.
His lordship then passed sentence upon
the prisoners. DR.. Jameson was SEN
fenced to fifteen months Imprisonment
without labor; Maj. Sir John Will
lcughby to ten months; Maj r. White
to seven months, and Capt. Henry
f. Coventry (son Of the Earl of Coven-
try, Col Grey and Col White to five
months imprisonment.
DR.. Jameson, who had hitherto hung
his head, looked UP proudly when the
sentence had been passed, and the other
defendants stared hard at the lord
chief justice. Very soon after the for
malities had been completed. the war
dens of Holloway prison appeared and
took positions on each side of the pris-
oners. This was the bitterest moment
of all for the raiders, as up to that time
they had been treated with the great
est courtesy and had in fact been made
heroes of, to certain degree. But
when the elbows of the prison wardens
touched those of the aristrocratic free
booters, they seemed to realize that the
strong arm of the law had knocked all
the romance out of the TransvaaI
f1asco, and that, come what may in the
shape of easy treatment in prison, they
were convicts in the eyes Of the law
and in the eyes of society, to say moth
ing of the military authorities, who, it
is believed, must now take action look
ing to depriving the prisoners of their
commissions in thes British army.
Then was enacted the last chapter in
the trial Of ..Dr. Jim and his asso-
ciates. The court was ordered cleared,
the audience filed slowly out into the
streets and the prisoners were escorted
to Holloway prison. There was abso-
lutely no demonstration in the court
room when the prisoners were taken
away. or outside of it when they were
escorted to jail.
The sentences imposed upon DR..
Jameson and his companions were very
generally discussed in the lobbies of
parliament tonight Contrary to the
feeling manifested by the fair specta-
tors and the sylnpathizing friends in
the court room today, the sentences
were lighter than were expected by men
in parliament It Is recognized, how
ever, that the sentences are more Sc
rious for the military prisoners than
the mere term fixed for their imprison-