The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-21
GET BRITISH JUSTICE
DIss DE BARR AND JACKSON ARE
CONVICTED.
BOTH GET HEAVY SENTENCES
THEoCRATIC UNITY WILL NOW
TAKE REST.

Jackson Gets Fifteen Years and yhe
Woman Seven for Their immoral
Practices-The Judge Charged
Strongly Against Them-The De-
PENDANTS Did Not Call witnesses
But Made Statements of Their
Own-The POrtIy Diss de Bar Held
Court Spell Bound with Her EIo-
quence.
London, Dec. 20.-Theodore and
Laura Jackson, the latter best known
in the United States by the name of
Ann O'Delia Diss deBar, We're found
guilty by a jury in the Old Bailey to-
day on charges of immoral practices
and fraud. The judge at once imposed
sentences of fifteen and seven years
penal servitude upon jackson and his
reputed wife, respectively. The pris-
oners listened to the passing of SEN
tence in evident astonishment but
maintained silence. AS the Judge I'M
ished Jackson turned from the pris-
oners' dock and walked down the steps.
Swami" as the woman head of the
so-called "Theocratic Unity" has lat
N-AiS Ce-hNA hCAoCAAp ClAiiiGdt BUHCu 10
the judge and court and followed her
male companion to where officers were
waiting to take them to prison.
When the case for the prosecutions
was closed the defendants announced
that they would not call any witnesses,
but would testify in their own behalf.
jackson was then sworn and conn
nnnpAn adj
nature of a lecture, in the course OF
which he claimed to be 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 falsehoods. He described the
female prisoner as a medium through
whom he (Jackson) had communica-
tion with his spirit wife"
jackson, in his address, referred to
his estate of 1890 acres of land in
Florida and dwelt at great length on
the principles of the Theocratic Unity
When asked whether Mrs. jackson
had 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 dur
ING her cfoSs-examination the name
Dfss de Bar was mentioned for the first
time in court, the witness admitting
that she was the divorced wife OF Gen.
Diss de Bar. adding that she had in
nerlted fortune from him.
The woman also admitted that she
had been married to man named Nc
Cool and TO p. Il. Messaut She said
her income from the Diss de Bar prop-
erty was $4,000 yearly. acknowledged
that she had served six months in iail
IN New York for defrauding Luther &.
Marsh. and denied that she had ever
been known as Vera p. Ava.
jackson made speech to the i,1rv
He said 1t was monstrous that such an
infamous charge should be laid at thei,
door especially considering that his
companion had devoted her life 10
Christian reform.
The female prisoner. in turn, ad-
dressed the jury. Drawing her classic
robe around her ample form and rars-
ing herself to her full hight, she held
the court spellbound for over an hour.
Justice Bigham then summed IN very
strongly against the prisoners, saving
1t was difficult to conceive Of rnore
revolving and abominable conducr.
The jury was absent less than five
minutes.