MAIL SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1485, 20 October 1885, Page 4

MAIL SUMMARY.

(Dates from Europe to September,) i' an Feancisco. Sept. 26. Details of the so-called übduction case, wherein. Mr Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, General Booth of the Salvation Army, Mrs Jarrett, Mrs Coombes, Mr Maury, and Mrs Jacques are all defendants and the girl, ° Eliza Armstrong, plaintiff, monopolised public interest to the neglect of politics both m London and elsewhere; The Bow Street Police Court was densely crowded within and without. It was besieged by howling mobs, and it required the utmost eißEorts of the police to control the excited mob, who-threat-ened to lynch. General Booth . and Mrs Jarrett, and they were/ with difficulty restrained from breaking through the Guards and attacking the occupants of several cabs as they arrived at the entrance of ;the 'court. On 'the 14th Sep-j tember, durinefthe examination of Mrs ; Broughton, who- it is alleged conducted! the sale at the' girl, the Magistrate B frfl-j quently'tqld Mr Stead that f his 'questions] were irrevalent. , Mr Stead.s miled 7 corn-; placently when he thought he had scored \ a point. Mrs Broughton's evidence was; .riot materially shaken. 'She denied thatj the girl was sold, and declared that she! accepted £4 from Mrs Jarrett m Consider- \ ation for past kindness. The testimony; 6t the child herself was to the effiect that! she was despatched to France to prevent' the police from getting possession of her for another. She Svrote several, letters' homej but the 'members 'of the Salvatibni Army, who had possession of her,' sup-i pressed them. She identified Mrs Jarretii as tlie woman wB6 had secured lieff rdmj her mother, on the plea of needing heij assistance to do the housework. Ex-! penses m the case have gone up to enor-; mqus figures. Mr Stead conducts his Own case with the exception of occasional, suggestions from his regular solicitori The officers of the Salvation.Army, i how-; ever, have employed an eminent array of pleaders tb defend : - Mrs Jarrett and Bramwell Booth. The leading counsel for the deiehce'is; Charles Eussell, Q.CJ and M.P. ffa Dundalk, who receiyes for every appelirance thaWhe makes m the police court.; , J i