The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-31
ANOTHER trial
on M001EDP0NT
Talk Of Appeal From Man
slaughter Verdict in Ed
win brood Murder.
$3.50 -
PENSION RECORD
IS
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viscount Ross. Former Cabinet Minis-
ter, Received $4,000 Yearly for
Twenty-one Years-Tiftecn Years
Was the Previous Longest Run.

London. Jan. 31.-There is talk. Of
appeal from the verdict of manslaugh-
ter found by the. literary jury which
recently tried John Jasper. for the
murder of Edwin brood The more
serious-minded members Of the Dick-
ems society who expected a careful
weighing. Of evidence with the hope Of
ending the controversy over Dickens
unfinished move in which Jasper and
brood were the chief characters are
disgruntled because the trial Develop
ed into such n farce, land such a dull
farce at that"
There were many who did not ap.
preciate the humor which q. K:
Chesterton. as Judge. and George Ber-
tried to inject. and the convicted de-:
PENDANT, whose part was taken se-
riously by T. T. Harry. asserts thai
there are ample grounds for IAN APP
peal II for no other reason than that
the verdict was solely the decision of
Foreman Shaw arrived at during the
luncheon interval" nearly three. hours.
before the end of the trial. as the fore
man himself admitted: Most Of the,
Walter Gretch, one of the counsel
for the defense, is eve more severe
with Shaw. He declares that the YER
dict was "typically Shavian and there.
fore typically farcical and unsatisfac-
tory. It also had the more fragrant
defect Of being absolutely untrue. for
the jurors were not consulted as to
its terms"
/ New Survey Work.
A letter from III Bolivian suryey
commission dated Abuna River, No
venber %, that the expedi-
ton commanded by Herbert A. Ed
wards Of the British army has com
pleted over 200 miles of the frontier
survey and incidentally ''inaugurated
a new era in explanatory surveying"
The expedition fixed all of its longi-
|tudes by wireless telegraphy from Por-
to VALID, situated 100 miles from the
received every night by means of n
rough receiving set and a long wire
which was rugged up on trees. Com
mander Edward declares that these
methods will enable the explorer to
dispense with chronometers and easily
and accurately fix all longitudes.
Record in State Pensions.
A record in state pensions Is cstab-
fished in the case Of Viscount Ross.
former cabinet minister. whose death
occurred recently He drew a pen
sion Of $4,000 yearly for twenty-one
years. his total of 100000 in pension
money having been approached only
by C.. P. yilliers. who established the
former record of $4,000 at his death
in 1898.
There are now only three former
ministers drawing pensions. Lord
George Hamilton, who receives $1O,-
600 a year, Henry Chaplin. whose pen,
sion is $4,000 yearly, and Lord Ball
$4,000. These pensions are drawn iln-
der an act Of parliament which pros.
vides that a orme member of cab.
met who has no means to maintain.
his dignity as an ex-minister may ap-
ply for state aid. So" =.
Give Women Right. to Practice Law.
A bill is to be introduced in the
house of commons next session which
aims at giving English women the
right to practice as lawyers. 1t is a
question whether. it will receive the
support of the government, without
which stands little chance of sue
cess.
The matter has -been fought In the
courts for several years and the de-
cision to introduce a bill results from
the Judgment of the cou of appealx
present law did not give the
right to practice. and that the only
tribunal which could give ONE such
rights was parliament. The grounds,
for this Judgment were not that there
was any inherent unfitness among
women which prevented them from
appearing in law practice /. The court
held that this common law disability
was further supported by a dictum of
Lord Coke, issued ove 800 years ago
concerning those who had become en-
titled to practice law from time to
immemorial. AS old as it is his die.
tum is still binding in English law.
Unyeil Weymouth in June.
Walter Hines Page, the American
ambassador, has tentatively arranged
to unveil at Weymouth in June the
memorial erected in that town to
Richard Clark and John Endicott,
two Weymouth men who took part In
the early colonization OF America.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain is a de-
scendant of John Endicott and she as
sisted considerably in the movement
inaugurated by the town council for,
the memorial. The town Of Wey-i
mouth, Mass. U s. A., and the: city
Of Boston, and towns in Newfound-
Ian hav been asked to send repre-
sentatives to the unwilling. The
Chamberlain family will also be rep
resented.