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BIGLAND'S TRIAL.
The Closing Scenes.
At the old Bailey, Mr. Comyns Carr resisted an application for an adjournment.
Mr. Bigland, he said, was ready, to go on with the trial.
"We are here at obviously con
costs shall be paid by Mr. Bot.
tomley forthwith."
ADJOURNMENT OPPOSED. There was another matter of
diferent character.
!
ented piecemeal. I sat your lordship to my that the trial must be adjourned until such time as we can be furniabed with an in- dependent and properly certified rspart by which Mr. Bottomley is prepared, so far as this libel in concerned, to stand or fall.
In a voice oven lower than those of counsel Mr. Justicà, [Colaridge intimated that he could not oppose the demand for the trial to proceed.
The jury, composed exclusively of men, waS SWOTU.
rosa
Sir Edward Marshall Hall then It was, of course, expected by all that he was entering upon the prolonged task of stating the case for prosecution-s difoult and necessarily involved task, demanding a minuteness of detail, as indicated by the vanload and 50 files of documentary evidence. Those prosent saftled into com- |fortable attitudes. Bigland him- self took of his gold-rimmed spectacles and momentarily sat down.
Suddenly the court was astir. Low murmurs hummed through the oakpanelled chamber-mur- murs of incredulity, of profound astonishment.
"The prisoner has pleaded not guilty generally to the indict- ment," he was saying, “and I do not propose to give him the op- portunity of reading the 57 |paragraphs in his ples.
I propose to offer no evidence on the general count” be coa- cluded, slowly and now distinctly, and the jury will therefors find the prisoner not guilty."
By this time Bigland was again leaning on the front of the dock. He was as little affected as any- one in court by the collapse of the case against him.
The judge gave a brief instruc- tion to jury.
The jury returned a formal | verdict of not guilty.
عه
WITH COSTS.”
AL occa Mr. Comyns Carr applied for costs in that court and in the court below. This was a case of libel, he said, and it was usual to make such an order. Obviously the defendant bad been put to enormous costs; in coming to prave his ples of justification which Mr.Bottomley did not desire to contest.
Sir Edward Marshall Hall protested against these words. whereupon Mr. Comyns Cart im" mediately altered them by sub- stituting “in order to, avoid con- testing which, Mr. Botomley has abstained from pursuing the
[case."
Mr. Justice Coleridge made the order asked for the costs to bei taxed, and Bigland was dis- charged.
A friend sprang to the front of the dock, grasped him by the hand, and passed up & bundle of telegrams. He stuffed them into his pocket, took a sip from a mug of water on a shell beside him,į and then, collecting his bag, batļ and overcoat, came smiling down the steps.
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CHINA'S WEALTH.
Inventory to be Prepared.
survivors of the crew, their clothes charred and their bodies scorched. Before the rescue the mate, clasp- BIGLAND LOOKS ON, SMILING.
ing in his arms his wife, to whom Outside the Old Bailey there
ha had only been married three was a sprinkling of loiterers. Mr.
Mr. Tab Kung-cho, Chinese weeks, jumped overboard, and the unfortunate people I will not Bottomley, as he passed out, Minister of Communications, in a they disappeared in raging seas use a harsh term-deprived of paused to be photographed and circular telegram to the various their money, have sent in their filmed. On the fringe of the provinces and Chambers of Com-Ten others of the crew weze claims, is capable of only one group, Bigland stood smiling marce, 1878 that, in accordi ace either killed or drowned. Vesta interpretation. It means that the grimly and quite unnoticed. with the despatch of the Wai- |(883 tous register) left books have been kept in such a Thus what promised to be one chiaopu, an official letter has been Hamburg for Lisbon with a contemptible manner that they do of the most remarkable of modern received from the secretary- not contain any proper record of trials ended in an anti-climax. the club's businese, in which case the protection of this Court will not belp in these proceedings at
Bil."
kindred organisations.
Carr, "are enough for me. I am
FAMINE RELIEF IN KLANGSU.
general of the League of Na-general cargo, including cases of tions, asking that official and arsenic and drums of naphthay accurate inventories about the Owing to heavy weather the dock national wealth of the Chinese load shifted, and the drums o. In response to the urgent appeal republic be forwarded to the
naphtha, through being knocked xiderable expense." said Mr. Carr. INVITATION TO MR. BOTTOMLEY. for help the Chinese and Foreign League's Council with a view to
together, exploded. The ship). "Obviously the costs are very
ascertainingthe industrial position He had not seen the books, but Famine Relief Committee has of Chins among the Powers. The caught fire in a short time, and Jarge indeed. I suggest that if you make this adjournment the
his accountants had had an in-granted an additional sum of telegram adds that the industrial the flames were fanned by the spection of the banking accounts approximately $200,000 for im-aventories must be ready before gale. Some of the crew lost their of the Victory Bond Clab andmediate relief in the provinces of the end of April next for des- through the capsizing of a boat. lives in the explosion others Kiangsu and Anhwei Money is Those bank books." said M. given to the Sub-Committees Patching to Geneva and that the It was due to the skilful seaman- | nomination of Chinese repres ship of Skipper Jenkerson, of the which are mostly under the super-entatives to the Council of the equally great importance, said prepared to go to trial on those, vision of Catholic and Protestant International Labour Conference, EW.B., that the captain and the other survivors-who, scorched .. Mr. Cart. The defendant was and to invite Mr. Bottomley to missionaries, wherever food can the proportion of the League's and gassed br. fumes, were hud.
committed for trial at the Shrop explain them, and the jury to still be bought in the nearby
expenses, and the disarmament
dled amidships-were rescued shire Assizes on another charge judge of any explanation either districts but more than half the question are to be finally decided
and brought into Lowestoft, arising out of the case though of from the book or Mr. Bottomley's said sum will be sent in the form on the strength of these reports.
Those mouth, as to what appears in of food. Very extensive areas in Assizes began on February 13, them, and if no explanation is the districts of Yenchang, Tai-Hence, all the government as well and the present case was due to given to invite the jury to say chow and Hwaian is still under public railways, telegraph sud be tried first. He submitted that that very large sums indeed be-water or
otherwise unfit for telephone administrations have if the application for an adjoara-longing to this Victory Bond Club immediate sowing. Thousands been ordered to furnish their
IF YOU, WEAR TORICS rent were granted that Mr. Big- and kindred organisations have and thousands are starving and reports in accordance with their finances and properties of 1913, land's case at Shropshire Assizes been misappropriated by Mr. homeless. A feature of a recent that is before the world war, and you know you have the best. If should also be adjourned)
Bottomley,
Executive meeting was a mave it is reported that this is the first you do not, you have not yet Counsel submitted that Mr. The statement that Mr. Bot-towards permanent prevention of Bottomley had had a long time in tomley had paid £25,000 cash to floods in the form of a Hwai attempt in this country to make done the best you can to give which to answer that ples of the Receivers was news to him. Valley Conservancy scheme. An inventories about China's national your eyes comfort. It is possible justification, as it was put in last It might be proved, but it had endowment fund is to be created wealth for the information of the to correct the visions of eyes that
world.
need glasses without using Toric month. He now said he wanted not been made public. The only for the purpose of engaging]
lepses. It would also be possible workers to make s "to examine the books and have an thing made public was an offer of expert
to use a motor car without pneu-| account prepared."
£5,000 which, under the direction survey. Investigate conditions
matic tyres, but it would not be and draw up + An order had been made in re- of the Court, they had refused.
practicable
as comfortable. If you have failed gard to the production of the Sir E. Marshall Hall urged scheme. This endowment fund
FIRE DRAMA AT BEA.
to find real eye comfort, try a books, and he did not know that it was quite obvious that an is to be $100,000 to begin
Adramatic story is told af death pair of Torios, their deep inter whether Mr. Bottomley had taken adjournment would not hurt the with. A resolution was passed any steps to comply with it. defence, as Mr. Comyns Carr had to ask for the co-operation of the and rescue on Nasing German curve conforms to the natural International Famine Relief steamet off Lowestoft last month. motions of your eyes. Torin I venture to submit on these himself admitted he had not got Committee at Peking. In the The vessel--the Vests of Ham-lenses of any prescriptions are facts," went on Hr. Carr, "that his evidence complete. Mr. Bottomley has had unple Mr. Justice Coleridge: So meantime work is being provided burg-was a raging furnace when manufactured by the Hongkong opportunity for presenting much the worse for him.. for the thousands of people the Lowestoft steam trawler Optical Co., successors to Clark accounts from bis own books. To Bir E. Marshall Hall: Exactly. along the Canal Road making EW.E. ranged alongside, six and Co., manufacturing say they cannot be prepared until But I do not want this case pres are carried on wherever possible, and took off the captain and six-53, Queen's Road Central.
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