Show TOO EDl OWS 1 ASEi 1 t 4 I In the English Courts Crawls t A k Slowly Along1 F i d SENSATION IN NEW YORK Naval JSipendltureE IB the Far East To the Public Domain = The I Lily lust Pay The Stead Case JXJNDOK November 3Stead editor of the Pall Mall Gazette continued his test wonY on the opening of the central criminal court today He declined de-clined giving the names of persons alleged to be guilty of the infamy charged in the Gazette statements on the ground that he had promised his informants in-formants to observe secrecy in that respect He stated that he had gained his information by drinking champagne and spending money in brothels Stead then ottered to call the witness but Justice Lopes declined His Honor likewise declined the evidence of the Archbishop of Canterbury Howard Vincent a wellknown newspaper news-paper correspondent who reorganized tile detective system of the metropolitan metropoli-tan police with the designation of director direc-tor of criminal investigations and Lord Dalhousio testified to the magnitude of the infamous traulc in young girls for immoral purposes on the continent Stead admitted that he might have been muddled somewhat as to the statement state-ment of Mrs Jarrett The Attorney General twitted Stead over his alleged simplicity and said that Eliza had been taken a distance of 300 miles in a single night by a man who was her only companion com-panion Stead said he had entrusted the details of the affair to Bramwell Booth The defense closed their side of the case this af tternoon Justice Lopes directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty as to one of the defendants defend-ants Elizabeth Coombe of the Salvation Salva-tion Army who testified that she acted entirely under directions of Bramwell Booth |