The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-16
FOUR INDICTMENT
RETURNED AGAINST J.
{. WRAY THIS MORNING
WILL AGAIN BE TRIED
Continued on Page 81

4IHuiClHient- DlStrlCI attorney ii. ..
Phillips argument against it went for
naught. the attorney for the defense
asked for a verdict. Judge Call in
structed the jury and the words
came. Not guilty"
Immediately the government be-
gan its preparation OF a new case
against the minister He was in
structed not to leave the building, and
a few minutes later. as he was sit
ting in the court room, United States
Marshal L. A. Rennolds appeared with
warrant and arrested him He was
taken before United States Commits
sioner III. l.. Crane. the affidavit hav-
ing been signed by ID. f. Anglers, Chi
cago postoffce inspector, who re-
ceived by express the literature and
booklet alleged to have been sent
from Lakeland by the minister as the
Star Book Co.
New Warrant is Specific
The complaint and the new war
rant were specific in their workings,
leaving no loophole. and instead of
alleging use of the mails, the govern
ment charges him with a vocation of
section, 245 of the criminal code which
makes it crime for anyone to de-
posit or cause to be deposited for
carriage with any common carrier
between one state and another any
obscene, lewd. or lascivious book
pamphlet, picture or paper or other
matter of indecent character
Wray was quietly awaiting bonds
men early this afternoon, while AS
sstant District Attorney Bolts was
working with the grand jury on a
new indictment which was to con-
tain sixteen counts. The warrant un-
der which he was arrested set forth
the facts of the case in detail, charg
ing him with depositing with the
Southern Express Co at Lakeland for
carriage to Chicago. pamphlet de-
scribed as "A Night in a Moorish Ha-
rem" by Lord George Herbert, divid-
ed into about sixteen chapters. chap
Ter one being headed 'Abdellah
Pasha's Seraglio,' chapter two being
headed. The Spanish Ladys Story
etc."
Each of the chapters were set out
in this manner some of the titles be-
ing The Grecian Lady's Story"
"The Moorish Lady's Story" and
other stories belonging" to the Ital-
ian Lady. the Caucasian Lady, the
Persian iady and the Portuguese
lady. Chapter nine was THE Cap
tain's First Story" and so on through
the balance of the book =. leach
chapter of said publication beinU too
coarse and vulgar. obscene and lasciv-
ious to be set forth in the affidavit,
each of said chapters purporting to
be the experience of the most lewd
and lascivious conduct that can be
imagined on the part of human be-
ing. which is too vulgar and lascivi
GUS to be set forth"
District Attorney Phillips had pre-
pared the bill of particulars asked for
by Attorney Blackwell at the open
ing session of the Wray trial yester
lay. morning and court resumed yes
ierday afternoon little after 3
o'clock The room was packed. The
prisoner and his attorney arose and
Mr. Phillips read the eight long
counts of the indictment
Daughter on Verge Of Collapse.
Rev. Wray's daughter, few feet
away, seemed on the verge of col
apse. She wrung her hands. bit her
fingers. her nails. her lips; sank low
N her chair for support while tears
rolled down her cheeks. 1t was a
touching scene. picture to sink in I
10 the hearts of jury, but the twelve
men in whose hands lay the fate of +
he minister had not yet been select !