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JUDGE AMD JURY

An Echo of Bloody Friday In his summing up and charge to t-he jury in the Civile Strikie Trial, the Lord Justice Clerk, Scott Dickson, "looked at the riddled, and battered evidence tor the Crown, saw that the prosecution was a gi.gan.tic frame-up to justify the ferocity of thio police on Blocdy Friday, ruled out irrelevant charge after irrelevant charge, and in so many words practically told the jury that there was no case against the ac;;.>:

;-.iJ!'■.-.■" "Wβ have nothing 1° l ' o i ll ' n '-> "".itu politics or red Hags," t.iid, "ar.d nothing- to do with whether this ;-tr;iuwas a. proper or an hiiprop-:-" ;..<■;!..■-. I'm , I,;V [•:)',. ll' '!. Uuly tU'V'P. a ~■!.: '•■-■ C -JllU .-■::• r.nl.rr 1.,,j.v,. .: -.VKni '•■■!> ii.ii i :!.;.:.■! ~ ;.,; :d p.'" -. ]n IT;%1 !'U ro ! L.J: LT'-i lii; I -,■'■'■■. : .' Hi:;!; liiroctjy it lias no-1r;. ■ ■ L■• ■:.-; '■•.-'li 1 flinrgo. It mi f , r liU ',■■ ', ■<■!■,'.:'.i ■. ;;.;;i't-s.:ii v- to huvo some o.ir! . -.a -. t,a« ord-rome vion-s nf :.lir,;, v.-i.o v,>:-r-> tiikiii., p:u-t. [ iuvUtftr.ua n, is a iK.JitK'al ; ;-ymbol j-m'l sign. W'hatev-t-L- it is, it bar, 111 *-- capacity apparently of cx'.utinp: ji;iiosy?.in> c>l , indifrnatiun and doi-itifii in iflnic cjU-irU-r.-, and onthu.siaMii bcoin.l boumla in othors. ,. All Him u;ih too much fT a rniiliile■•lasa jury. IJad i,ot th«ir L'n-s told thorn 'that Shinwell was, like 'I'voUKy. an accursed .low, :mkl that <- ; ;il lather was ii Sinn Wini'i-r- (>no jur.vunui, d> his honour, held that all the accuMnl wcro innocent; thp mnjority denuinded victims, and ,so ioc.r of (11r> licensed— Shiti'.V'T-11, Gallaclier, "Mnriay and M'Cartney—wore "l'oiaid" guilty. Tbe Jury could not rise to tlrw Judy's vi*co n I nu> nd at k> n that it" hey should sevk it rishleous verdict lather than "a pood J'ress." Instiiu-dvcly 1 hfy shrank from iuenrritig- 1:h« learning lio>(ility of their class new.spap-ers —iiml what th;>t hostility would have been had they found t'lio bo'ui'goois.o no victims i> evident from (he frenzied uoiniiß'iils of Midi papery {|i,> .News which did not seek to hido its chagrin that only i'onr of tbe- hoc used were sentenced. Eye wiine-scs in Court declare that they never saw a man so obviously nonplussed as was Lord Ju = 1 ice Clerk at Ui-e jury's verdict. He tumbled with his papers, h*>, hesitated, he retired to consider his α-uive of action, and, when finally h,v delivered tho sentences, h<? <li(i so without, admonition (,;> llio at:--■ ewsed, ov oven pvft€U(> of concurrence with thr jury's —Forward.

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