The Dilke Case

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 74, 23 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Dilke Case

Üb* Dilfe* case is once more looming on the ««cial horizon. Most of us taped, ms b*d fc<wr<i tho last of it, painful an* terrible as the thought m-as that one of the wwst brilliant mea «s>f -tfce day, *ad from whom tho&ation Justly expected great things, had received a blow from which he could never hope to recover. Yet there are ; evideaceß *few»d. itbnit g>e«jfte «tQi beJieveia tkam;aaad tbe alleged conspiracy. Amongst tibe iaatMui are evidently to Ibe ovuated « a*u*»W wf <ki« coasti<(mentfcs wio feawe ,neeeK%- pawed «. vote of 'COttfideißoe in itiuL, and desive *© moßiwatfte Miv liar itito aiaxt vfteancy in Chelsea. <Ofcaifl«», 'however, 4© do Mm credit, absolutely deulsues to reenter fmibilie dale .umtiSl iiis okawtcter, has been t-e-e^tnb'Eshe^ in the -ey«e ©f kis country men, S.«m M ««tes" om itba receatscandiil have heen published lately fey an •ewmtia^g' Loadon paper, a-nd excite Hterest hmn. the .current belief thafl; they aa;e t&e production «f the co-ireap indent kiiiueelf and are arumored to be foelfi-a thritwn out previous to some legal move— possibly •-a prosecotfcioß. of eoiae one for perjuryIt is said that important discoveries have been made since the recent itrial wha-h tend to j)rove « gross miscarriage ef justice. Aaito (fcke aforesaid " notes," they add but little t© <our knowledge except in one important poiaoL It may fee semembered ithat at the trial the jury asked Mrs Crawford ito uiake a sketoh of the s-ooaa in W&x>es-<fltreet, where the ;ailegefi;a&uheryit«H>k place. Now it as ptmftiively >deu3aoied ithat the sketch in question, lie urtterly <err«neous, aoad >dous not reeeutftile ithe 'Construction x& tthe house or room or the jposition of fthe furniture-; and iit ii« Mntefl pretty plainly that at was made simply from Saearsay, and from wJaattMre'Cawiord fiiad gathered i% listening ito tke «eyi4eo«e. ©ut if ac, it ik ©dfl, *« «ay iihe feast, ithat .no one on Sir Charles DtSk«'« sxb&e datectedrtiie discrepanciee .at tthe

time the plan was made, for it undoubtedly had an important influence on the opinion of the jury. — Times.