THE DAYTON TRIAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1925, Page 2

THE DAYTON TRIAL.

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NEW YORK, Juiv 20.

At Dayton .Air Harrow was cited for contempt of court by the presiding Judge, Air Kaulston, who at the opening of the Court to-day charged Harrow with showing contempt and adopting an insulting manner on Friday during the heated exchange over the introduction of scientific evidence in which lie virtually delied Judge Raulston and questioned his impartiality. i’he penalty is a line or imprisonment and there is no appeal from the Judge's decision. In Mich a ease Harrow. who is under a five thousand dollars bond, is required to answer the citation to-morrow. Affidavits of nine prominent scientists, educators and clergymen, who intended to give testimony for the defence, were not read, hut were entered in the Court record. The attorneys for the prosecution and defem-e pleaded alternately in the closing arguments. The defence has already prepared its appeal from ihe verdict of guilty which is exp.-.led to he given to-morrow. NEW YORK, July 20. Harrow apologised pi the Judge, who shook hands an-.l dismissed the contempt charge. Tin- Judge then ordered tin; Court room, to tie emptied owing to the danger of its collapse, cracks having opened in the cciiing and Hour below, the Court room stairway also showing signs of giving away. The trial was reconvened on the lawn the Judge and counsel occupying the platform erected for tile Evangelists.

CASE FOR EA’OLETIO.N. NEAY YORK. July 2<h Nine a flic la vihs have been lik’d by prominent scientists, educationalists and clergymen in ihe Scope’s case. They declare brielly that evolution in nature i- an undeniable fact. A prescript inn against teaching evolution in the schools would work imiold harm. They aflirm that evolution docs not cmillict with religion, for in (toil’s method, there is a continuous creation and a continuous revelation of Himself to man. They nl-o declare that mi conflict exists between the Bible and the fact cl evoliil ion. One affidavit says: The fundamentalist insult to God is in shutting man's mind to God’s ever-growing revelation of Himself to the human s,ml. Mr Harrow (.-scone’s counsel) also submit ted a statement as follows; - •‘We, a- (lie defence lawyers, take up no position regarding the truth ol the Bible stories, and w c w ish to stair that we should he able to prove. Iroin learned Biblictui scholars. that the Bitile is both a literal ami a figurative document: that God speaks llis par. allies and allegories sometimes lileraiD and sometimes spiritually. AYe shouh Is- a I ile to prove that the entire Jlibh teaches Ihe fact that there is a fundament id dilfeiviice between the sou! am the bode.