Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-09
TRIED TO DODGE IT
President Kruger Unwilling to Accept the
Responsibility of Trying Hammond.
OFFERED TO LET HIM GO WITH JAMESON
English Agent in the Transvaal Declined
to Accept the American Prisoner.
ENGLISH LEADERS WILL ESCAPE EASILY
ENGLISH LEADERS WILL ESCAPE EASILY
Home Government Not Inclined to Be
Hard on the Rand Raiders.
INTENTION InTlMATED TO CECIL RHODES
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain Gives
the Cape Mngnnte Tip on the
Probable Outcome of
the Trial.

Copyright, 1896, by Press Publishing Company
LONDON, Feb. S.-(New York World
Cabegram--Special Telegram although
nothing. on the subject has been pub
lished here yet, the information reached
me tonight from what would seem to be
an entirely trustworthy source, that Pres-
dent Kruger of the Transvaal republic
proposes to hand over John Hays Ham
mond for trial with Jameson In England,
for direct completely in the offense jameson
committed against English law. But the
British government declines this proposal on
the obvious ground that Mr.. Hammond,
being an American citizen and not having
committed any offense in British territory,
his trial in British court would give just
grounds for complaint by the United States
government. 1t is surmised that President
Kruger desired by transferring Mr.. Ham
mond to the British authorities to avoid
the responsibility Of trying in the Trans
vaal an American in whose behalf such
great influence had been brought to bear
The Cape Town special dispatch, pub
lshed in the World, and giving particulars
of the deplorable condition of Mr. Ham
mond in JAIL played an important part In
securing his release from prison. My in
foimant says that the Worlds dispatch was
cahled by the British colonial department
from here to Sir Hercules Robinson, the
governor of Cape colony, who directed Sir
Jacobus de Wet the British agent at Pre-
toria, to make inquiry into the statements
contained therein, and it was as result
of that inquiry that Mr.. Hammond was
liberated on BAIL
FRANK TALK TO KRUGER.
I am also informed that Hennen Jen-
nings, nephew Of the late John Morris of
Westchester, and Henry Perkins, formerly
of New York state, the other most eminent
American mining engineers employed on the
Rand, had an interview with President
Krueger just before the uprising. They
told him as Americans their sympathies
were with the Beers and the republic, but
II trouble began they would side with the
uitlanders. They begged him to make some
concessions, and thus keep the peace
President Kruger told them that per-
sorally he was in favor of giving the for
e.gners some relief but his burghers would
not follow him, and therefore he must leave
the results to force If force was to be
used
This frank talk probably prevented Presi-
dent Kruger from arresting Perkins or
Jennings, as they were about the only
leading men behind the scenes who were
not arrested.
Captain Mein, formerly Of California, an
other of the noted American engineers Of
the Rand is still awaiting trial.
My informant says further that Captain
Coventry, brother of Lord Dehurst, who
married the American girl, and Captain
Gosling, both Of whom have been in a hos
pital suffering from wounds sustained at
Krugersdorp, are to surrender themselves
on their arrival in England to be tried
with Jameson. Thus the curious spectacle
will be presented Of a son Of the earl of
Coventry, a high official at the court of
St. James, being arraigned for an offence
which Is in effect modified treason. can
not now confirm my previous information
that DIR. Jameson and his confederates
will be indicted under the foreign enlist
ment act the maximum punishment for
his offense being two years Imprisonment.
MAY BE LONG POSTPONED.
1t is now apparent that in order to allow
the collection Of evidence in South Africa
the trial cannot take place before May, and
1t is shrewdly suspected that the effect.
probably intended, of this long delay will
be to make II less likely than ever that
anything more than nominal punishment
will be inflicted.
According to gossip in official circles the
interview between Cecil Rhodes and Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain has proved that the
punitive measures the secretary apparently
intended to take against the British South
African company will be substantially modi-
fed. At the outset Of 1t, Mr. Chamber
lain privately notified the company that its
charter would be drastically revised, and
that the only reason he did not revoke IL
altogether was that by doing so he would
irfict grave financial loss on innocent share
holders. But he is now declared to have
adopted much milder views and unless the
redical opposition in Parliament forces his
hand, the company will be found in the long
run to have suffered very little from the
action of its representatives in the Trans
yaal.
LIFE OF THE COSTERS PARSON.
No mention of one funeral in London this
week has probably been cabled to New York,
but 1t was as notable, in way, and more
pathetic than that of the prince, buried in
the Isle of Wight, or those of the great
painter and the great musician, borne with
much ceremony to st. Paul's.
Rev. Alfred Goulden, the vicar of ST.
Alphege, Southwark, who was locally known
as the 'coster's parson," was buried today
at Working. Southwark is borough in
southeast London. Mr.. Goulden was sent
there more than twenty years ago by Bishop
Wilberforce, when there was neither church
nor school, nor mission building In the dis
trict assigned to him. He began his work,
indeed, in stable, for the use Of which he
was indebted TO a coster woman, and 1t was
this circumstance, perhaps, which led him
to take an especially active interest in the
coster class He established not only
chruch and something like forty different
agencies for the moral and material benefit
In the district, but he set up night school
exclusively for costers, and club was also
confined TO their use. At this last named
institution manly exercises, such as boxing,
We're not discouraged. and absolutely tho
only rules were: Don't throw the gloves
about" and don't swear or gamble" lie