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Show STEAD FOUND GUILTY, And In Company With Jarrett Will Be Sent to Jail. Several Appointments Made By the j President To-Day. Justin McCarty Will Again Be Sent to Parliament. The Stead Case Goes to the Jury. London, November 7. The trial of Mr. Stead and the other defendants in the Armstrong Arm-strong abduction case, was resumed to-day before Justice Lopes. The Judge, in his charge to the jury, urged that they bring the verdict according to law, and not to allow personal sympathies to influence their decision. de-cision. Mr. Stead, Justice Lopes said, filled me articles of - an obscene nature, the publication of which was not connected with the present charge. The only matertial . question for the . jury to decide was whether the child, Eliza Armstrong was taken away from her home against her father's will. . They were also to determine whether the mother sold her child to the prisoners, as alleged by the defendants. 'ine jury retired at ?:40 p. m. The foreman fore-man asked the Judge, before the jury left their seats, to allow the -.r to distinguish between be-tween Mrs. Jarrett and Kr. Stead as to their criminal liability in case the jury concluded that Mrs. Jarrett had disobeyed the instructions instruc-tions of Mr. Stead. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty against Stead and Eebecca Jarrett, and acquitted both Jacques and Booth. |