The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-21
High Priestess of Wickedness Given
Seven Years in Prison and Her
Companion Fifteen.
JURY WASTED LITTLE TIME
RENDERED A VERDICT OF GUILTY
IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES.
Judge Also Anxious to Get Rid of the
SalaciOus Case, and Promptly
Pronounced Sentences.

LONDON, Dec. ao.-Theodore and Laura
Jackson, the latter best known in the
United States as Ann Odelia Diss De Bar.
were found guilty by jury in the Old
Bailey to-day on charges of immoral prac-
tices and fraud. The judge at once i'm
posed sentence of fifteen and seven years
penal servitude on Jackson and his re-
puted wife, respectively. The prisoners
listened TO the passing of sentence in evil
dent astonishment but maintained silence.
AS the judge finished Jackson turned from
the prisoners dock and walked down the
steps Swami" as the woman head of
the so-called Theocratic Unity has latterly
called herself, smiled, bowed to the judge
and court, and followed her male COM
panion to where the officers were waiting
to take them TO prison.
Anticipation that a verdict would be
reached had revived interest in the trial,
and the courtroom was we'll filed when
the proceedings were resumed to-day. The
female prisoner as usual, furnished the
dramatic features of the examination of
the witnesses. cross-examining them in
modulated tones. and alternately whining
or threatening.
When the case for the prosecution was
would not call any witnesses, but would
testify in their own behalf. Jackson was
then sworn and commenced an address.
very much in the nature of lecture in the
course of which he claimed to be a man
bound to single life by religious vows, and
emphatically denied the testimony fur
nished as to his conduct with Daisy
Adams, whose story, he said, was a tissue
of falsehooGs. He described the female
prisoner as medium through whom he
(Jackson) had communication with his
spirit wife" Jackson, in his address, re-
ferred to his estate of 1880 acres of land
in Florida and dwelt at great length on
the principles Of Theocratic Unity
During his cross-examination Jackson
was very insolent to the solicitor general.
Sir Edward Carson. The judge warned
jackson that he was injuring his case
whereupon the female defendant inter-
jected, apprOvingly: That's right. Keep
him in order
When the solicitor general was examin-
ing jackson the latter casually remarked: :
IF Swami Ga name by which the female
Mrs. Jackson quickly rose to her feet
(having been accommodated with a chair
i'm the dock). and refused TO be included
with Jackson in the charge of criminal
assault
been imprisoned at New Orleans. Jackson
refused TO answer until the question was
repeated TO him by the female defendant
He then said she had been in jail twice.
Mrs. Jackson then testified, and during
her cross-examination the name Diss De
Bar mentioned for the first time I'm
court. the witness admitting that she was
the divorced wife of General Diss De Bar
adding that she had inherited a fortune
from him. The woman also admitted that
she had been married 10 a man named
McGool and TO Z. II. Messaut. She said
her income from the Diss De Bar property
was $4,000 yearly, acknowl sdged that she
had served six months I'm jail in New York
for defrauding Luther c. Marsh and de-