Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-29
THG JAMESON TRIAL.
r,r1,rCs Large and GTea! Interest
Manifested.
,us ROMANCE COMPLETELY GONE.
onmenis rpn TIL s.ni'rc's-lhe
Hnircy seems ob'asurprlsi
10 Macy.

LISBON, July 9s.-lhe attendance
tine lfial Of Dr. JameSon anu otboff,
,bsr,ed with violating the neutrality
30, I'm south Africa, was never 30
r,rgoastaday, and the greatest Inter
., was manifested in itbe proceedings.
The opeulng part OF L1Id RuSsel's
,smmlpg up, however, ami bis two
boars recApitulstIon OF TIC evidence
mountaineering, and even Dr. Jane.
,,a and tho other defendants dgzei ut
tines.
The ladlss, Of whom there was n
yr,at number Ia the courtroom, famed
lbsm.,lves YEARLY while trying ~
.,loh glimpses Of tho defendants. The
,t,L while the Jury was out, retired
q tho tva.room, where they held u IT.
,,rtion VI their Indy acquaintance
md relatives, nil Of whom had nigh
homes vi the acquittal VI tbs prisoners.
ihe Jury, after having retired at
,b5ut $3.50, returned at about b:2i anu
lac DEFENDANTS were hastily tuuimOncu
10 taku their places. The Judges came
IN i've MINUTES later, aud the jury men
gave an affirmative answer 10 all the
gue.lious which mad boon pTop0uuucd
10 mem by the chief Justice, but they
added a rider to tho effect TINT the dis.
iufbsncts at Johannesburg wero pro.
y0ca,iye.
Lotd Russell then directed that their
tpswrrs were equivalent 10 u ver1ict
N guilty. Tbs iofemun said that they
were not unanimous upon that point,
bot bis loTdship repeated his expinna.
lion ind then tue Jury retired together
IN about thirty MINUTES anu rendered
a verdict oi gully. Dr.. JamvsOu aud
bic c0-doioudan1s were apparently uu.
Moved.
Sir Edward Clarke nskei tho coutl's
uisp0ution to move f0f u new trial.
When the Judges returned Sir Edward
Clarke sEid mat In view VI the verdict
feudrtud the defendants refused 10 Ia.
suuct Tor new thai. anu expressed a
desire to settle the case now. III passing
teutencs, LORD Russell saiI that the
verdict was given on evidence which
no reasonable man would DO aDie to dis.
regard.
All the defendants, he added, were
mun Of position and intelligence, hold.
Ing positions under the queen, and
thtit crime had tho gIANuBt tOusr-
quonoee, including death TO 9omo and
d Jury to others, and the future cDnsc-
quences OF their crime no ono was yet
kUle 10 iOreseo.
HIS lordshIp then passed sentence
upon tho prlsoners.
DT. Jameson, who had hitherto hung
down his head, looked up proudly when
the sentence had been passed, anu tbs
other defendants stared haId ut the
lord chief Justice.
SOyD alter the sentencing formhlitios
haG been completed, tbs wardcns Of
Holloway prison appeared anu took up
positions on each side OF tho ptit-
OnUft.
TINS was the blttoTest moment OF all
lot thu raiders, M up to that time they
bad bten treated with the greatest
c0uTleiy. and mai Ia fact been mAue
hef0et, to certain degree. But when
tue elbows OF ths pTisOn war1cns
touched those OF the hTistoctAtiu irgU.
blolets lhey seemed TO realize that the
strong arm OF the law had knocked Az
Tue Tymaucp cut OF the Ifausvaai
hlGeO, anu that, come what may IN
TIE suapo Of easy treatment, they were
csnvioIS In the eyes OF the law And thu
military Suthorillos, who, II IL believed,
must now take action, looking 10 de-
depflvlng tue prisoners OF their cOm.
missions In the British army.
The court was ordered cleared, the
tudlolca MED slowly cut iuto tue
ftfrFtf and tins DfiEOnaFe WnIn t.sguFtnu
10 Holloway prisUn.
luers WINS absolutely no dsmonstra.
tlon Ia tue courtroom when tbs prisOI-