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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



December 1, 1913, 



" When the last word was spoken, the 

 tension was relaxed, and the whole court 

 hummed with excitement. I never can 

 forget looking down from the dock 

 upon the crowd below. Some of my 

 friends were very angry. But I could 

 not for the life of me see how the jury 

 could have done otherwise. The fore- 

 man of the jury called upon my wife 

 and explained, with tears in his eyes, 

 how utterly impossible he had found it 

 to answer the judge's questions in any 

 other way. " Tell him," I wrote, to my 

 wife from gaol. " Tell him not to 

 grieve. If I had been in his place I 

 should have done the same as he did." 



Next day was Lord Mayor's Day, 

 and I spent hours walking up and down 

 the streets through the thousands w^ho 

 turned out to see London's annual 

 pageant. I was going to be secluded 

 from my fellow-creatures for some 



months. I wanted to take my fill of the 

 crowd before I returned to my cell. 



The next day the second charge 

 springing out of the second incident was 

 tried before a second jury. I took no 

 part in the proceedings, and when the 

 inevitable verdict came, and w^e stood 

 up for sentence, the judge sentenced 

 me to three months' imprisonment. 1 

 w^as so certain that I was going tc 

 prison for two months that I with diffi- 

 culty restrained myself from saying : 

 " My Lord, have you not made a mis- 

 take? It ought to be two months." T 

 fortunately restained myself. When I 

 got into my cell I found that the sen- 

 tence ran from the opening of the ses 

 sion, and that the precise period of de- 

 tention I had to undergo w^as two 

 months and seven days. The judge had 

 come as near verifying my prediction as 

 it was possible for him to do. 



Photo.] 



THE AERIAL DERBY, AROUND LONDON. 

 Shows Hamel, the winner, starting from the Henley Aerodrome. 



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