Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-08-07
CONVICTED.
Jameson and Friends sentenced to Inn

Jameson and Friends Sentenced to Inn
prisonment--May be Cashiered.
There was a good attendance at the
Jameson trial in London, Eng, Tues
day and the greatest interest was mani
tested In the proceedings. The open
ing part of Lord Russell's summing up,
however, and his two hours recapitula-
ton OF the evidence, was tiresome and
DR.. Jameson and the other defendants
dozed at times. Sir Edward Clark
alone showed any signs of nervousness.
AS for the jury, composed with two ex-
ceptions of elderly men, there was no
doubling that they were bored. The
jury went out at o'clock and returned
at 5:24.
The defendants were hastily sum-
moned to take their places. The judges
came in five minutes later and the jury
gave an affirmative answer to all the
questions which had been propounded
to them by the chief justice. but added
a rider to the effect that the disturb
ances at Johannesburg were provoca-
tive. !,
Lord Russell then directed that
transfer were equivalent to a verdict of
guilty. The foreman said that they
we're not unanimous upon that point,
but his lordship repeated his explana-
ton and the jury then consulted to-
gether for about three minutes and rem
dered a verdict of guilty.
DR.. Jameson and his co-defendants
were apparently unmoved. Sir Ed
ward Clarke asked the courts DISPOSE
ton to move for new trial. When
the judges returned Sir Edward Clarke
said that in view of the verdict the de-
PENDANTS refused to instruct for q new
trial and expressed desire to settle
the case now. In passing sentence,
Lord Russell said that the verdict was
given on evidence which no reasonable
man would be able to disregard. All
the defendants, he added, were men of
position and intelligence, holding po-
sitions under the queen, and their crime
had the gravest consequences, including
death to some and injury TO. others,
while the consequences of their crime
no one was yet able to foresee. Con-
tinuing the lord chief justice said, al
though 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. JAM
eson was sentenced to fifteen months
imprisonment without labor; Maj. Sir
John Willoughby to ten months; Maj.
r. White to seven months and Capt.
Henry F. Coventry IA son of the Earl
of Coventry, Col. r. Grey and Col.
F. II. White, to five months imprison-
ment.
De Jameson, who had hitherto hung
down 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 sentencing for
malities had been completed the war
dens of Holloway prison appeared and
took up positions on each side of the
prisoners. This vas the bitterest mo-
ment of all for the raiders, as up to
that time they had been treated with
the greatest courtesies and had in fact
been made much Of But when the
elbows of the prison wordens touched
those of the aristocratic freebooters
they seemed to realize that the strong
arm of the law had knocked all the
romance out of the Trsnsvasl fiasco,
and that, come what may, in the shape
of treatment in prison, they were con-
victs in the eyes of the law and in the
eyes of society, to say nothing of the
military authorities, who, it is believed,
must now take action looking to de-
priving the prisoners of their commits
sions in the British army. Then was
enacted the last chapter in the trial OF |
DIR. Jim and his associates. The court |
was cleared, the people filed slowly |
out into the streets and the prisoners
were escorted to Holloway prison.
There was absolutely no demonstra-
ton in the court room when the pris- |
oners were taken away or outside of the |
prison when they were escorted to jail.
1t is recognized, however that the |
sentences are more serious for the mil |
;tary prisoners than the mere term
fixed for their Imprisonment, since il
is expected that they will be cashiered. |