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Show PUBLIC AND PRESS EXCLUDED AT TRIAL Lewes, England, March 14. A sentence sen-tence of five years penal servitude was pronounced at the Assizes here today by John Love Elliott of New York. He was found guilty by the Jury of flagrant breaches of tho law, tho nature of which was such that tho public and the press were excluded exclu-ded from the court room during the trial which lasted six days. The public prosecutor caused the arrest of Elliott on November 21 last on Information sworn to by Elliott's neighbors, who declared their affidavits affida-vits were mado on statements by the prisoner's two daughters, Florence and Dorice, with whom he resided for several months at EaBt Grlnsted, Sussex. Sus-sex. fin |