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Show LILY'S LITTLE DEBTS. i Judgment Entered Against Mrs. Lang, try for the Fine Feathers That ; Made the Fine Bird. - - Not Much of a rayy, Bnt Quite aj Smart Sam of Money to Keep . . Jft Afloat. - ' Editor Stead Used to Make a Night of It The Defense Closes To-Day. ! How Stead Gained Ills Knowledge. London, Nov. 3. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, continued his testimony on the opening of the Central Criminal Court to day. He declined giving the names of persons per-sons alleged to be guilty of the infamy charged in the Gazette's statements, on the ground thai he had promised his informants to observe seoresy in that respect. He stated, that he had gained bia information by drinking drink-ing champagne and spending - money in brothels. Stead then offered to call the witness, wit-ness, but Justice Lopey declined. His Honor likewise deolined the evidence of the Arch-, bishop of Canterbury. i Howard Vincent, a well-known newspaper correspondent, who reorganized the detective detec-tive system of the metropolitan police, and Lord Dalhousie testified to the magnitude of the infamous traffic in young girls,, for immoral im-moral purposes on the continent. Stead admitted that he might have been muddled somewhat as to the statements of Mrs.Jarrett. The Attorney-General twitted Stead over his alleged simplicity, and said that Eliza had been taken a distance of 303 miles in a single night by a man who was her only companion. Stead said he had entrusted the details of the affair to Bramwell Booth. The defense closed their side of the case this af ternoon. Justice Lopes directed the jury to return a verdict of "Not guilty" as to one of the defendants, de-fendants, Elizabeth Coombe, of the Salvation Salva-tion Army, who testified that she had acted entirely under the directions of Bramwell Booth. . |