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TRIAL OF DR. JAMESON


 | health, settling at Kimberley. There he rapidly acquired a great reputa- i ton as medical man, and besides 1 having on his list many distinguished | patients he came in close contact with Cecil Rhodes. John Hays Ham
 mond and other notables. In 1888 his | influence with Lobengula was sue cessfully eXerted to induce that i chieftain to grant the concessions 1 to the agents of Rhodes which led to the formation of the British South African company. and when that company proceeded to open up Ma shOnaland Jameson abandoned his profession and joined the expedition of 1890
 In 1891 Jameson succeeded Colqu- houn as administrator of Rhodesia
 At the end of 1894 'Dr. Jim," as he was familiarly called, went to Eng land and was feted on all sides. He returned to Africa the following spring with increased prestige On the last day of that year the world was startled to hear that Jameson with force of 600 men, had made a raid into the Transvaal from Mafe-
 king in support of a projected rising in Johannesburg. which had been connived at by Rhodes at the Cape. Jamesons force was compelled to surrender at Doornkopf They were tried and sentenced to execution, in cluding Hammond who was an American citizen. Jameson and his officers, however. were finally sent 60 Pretoria and, after short delay during which time sections of the Boer populace clamored for their ex- ecution, President Kruger on the surrender of Johannesburg, on Janu- ary :, handed them over to the Brit ish government for punishment. They were tried in London under the foreign enlistment act in May, 1896. and Dr. Jameson was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment at Holloway. This Jameson raid was made a short time previous to the ally irritated and encouraged that nation. and was doubtless one of the prime causes of the conflict which followed.
 The chief justice who sat in judg- ment on Jameson and other promi- nent raiders was Baron Russell In summing up his case for the jury his remarks were unusually hostile to the prisoners. He began by point
 ing out that none of the essential facts in the case against them had been contested and there was no doubt of their having taken part in or abetted the proceedings. Lord Russell concluded by submitting to the j7lry a series of questions diffi- cult to answer any way but affirma- lively and against the prisoners. Aft CT an hours absence the jury re- turned and answered affirmatively all the questions.
 Dr. Jameson and his defendants were apparently unmoved. They re- fused to ask for new trial. where upon Dr. Jameson received his sen tence of fifteen months, Major Sir John Willoughby was sentenced to ten months Imprisonment, Major R. White to seven months and Captain Henry F. Coventry. Colonel R. Grey and Colonel H. F. White to five months imprisonment each
 Soon after the sentence formalities | had been completed the wardens of i Holloway jail appeared and took l positions on each side of the prison | CTS. This was the bitterest moment of all for the raiders. as up to that 1 time they had been treated with the | greatest courtesy. and had. in fact, | been made heroes of to a certain I, extent.
 Dr. Jameson and his party had re- turned from the Transvaal during | the previous February, arriving on the Victoria on the twenty fourth 1 His appearance in London was the occasion of a popular demonstra tion of enthusiasm, for. whatever may be thought of his judgment. his I gallantry and devotion had aroused almost universal admiration | in England.
 The party were promptly arraign ed before Sir John Bridge at the Bow Street police court, February | 25, on the charge of having violated l. the foreign enlistment act in that, without the consent of her majesty. r. they had unlawfully prepared and + set out on a military expedition against a friendly state They were released each on his own recogni- I zance in $10,O00 bail. They were at r liberty until the following July and T their conviction.
 Dr. Jameson was released from pri- son on December of the same veal l, on account of ill health He still |, retained the affection of the people l. of Rhodesia and returned to that | country after his imprisonment. Iii 1904 he became prime minister of |, that country. He resides at present in London.
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