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Show IS ruti tun a tul Uesnut. . London, IS. The. case of Charles Bradlaugh and Mra. Anne Besant, free thought advocates, arrested some time ago on the charge of printing and publishing and immoral pamphlet, pam-phlet, which was adjourned lo allow the defendants time to -prepare their' defense, was bguu to d:iy before Cnief Justice Cockburn and a special jury. The solicitor general spoke condemning the book as indecent. Mrs. Bezant replied distending the book and denying thai it was obscene. ob-scene. The trial waa unfinished at the adjournment of the court, Since the beginning of tho prosecution the circulation ot the book haa increased from 700 .copied yearly to 100,000 copies. |