| Show The Gazette and Salvation Army in Court LONDON September 7lIr Stead editor of the Pall Mall Gazette Mrs JarrettBram well Booth Mrs Coombe Mr Jacques and Mine Maury defendants in the socalled abduction case appeared in the Bow Street Police Court today in answer to the charges against them Stead conducted his own case while counsel represented the others The excitoment in the court room and vicinity vicin-ity has seldom if ever been equalled The police are powerless to control the mob who assembled to hear the proceedings Members Mem-bers of the Salvation Army have been arriving ar-riving all the morning in cabs and were hooted and jostled by the crowd on their way into the court room In court there was a compact mass of people and a number of reporters were present also many members of the Salvation army and quite a sprinkling of brothelkeepers Mrs Jarrett sat in the prisoners dock Stead and Bramwoll Booth had seats in front of the dock Poland Solicitor for the Treasury opened the case for tho Crown with a long speech in which be gave a description of how the girl was obtained from her mother the outrages to which she had been subjected after she was installed in Madame Maurys establishment and the ill treatment she had received from the time she had left her mother until the time she was recovered and taken home Mrs Jarrett during Polands statement sat with calm demeanor her eyes closed and her head nodding closely resembling resem-bling Charles Dickens Sally Brass in the Old curiosity shop Stead appeared un I concerned smiling occasionally and at times denying Polands allegations At the close of his address to the court Poland demanded I the committal of all defendants for trial The child Eliza Armstrong s placed on the I witness stand and identified Mrs Jarrett as I the woman who had secured her from her I I mother on the plea of needing her assistance I to do housework The girl then gave in de i il 1 all the circumstances connected wither I with-er abduction I Eliza Armstrong further testified that at a medical examination immediately after she vrra decoyed from home the physician tested test-ed her innocence despite her screams and I that afterwards she was dispatched to I France to prevent the police getting possession posses-sion of her for her mother She wrote several I sev-eral letters home but the members of the Salvation Army who had charge of her suppressed sup-pressed them This ended the girls testimony testi-mony for the day The defendants intimated that they would contest the accuracy of many of the girls I statements The Court then adjourned until I I un-til tomorrow |
