DR. JAMESON.

Hastings Standard, Volume XII, Issue 5846, 9 May 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

DR. JAMESON.

Who has resigned the Premiership of the Cape, has 'had many memorable experiences in his career, but none so sigular as when he sat down to dinner next to a man who hc.d condemned him to death. This man was His Honor Judge Kotzo, who was Chief Justice of the Boer Republic when Dr "Jim" carried out his raid, which almost brought liim to the gallows. How different things might have been in South Africa to-day if Dr "Jim" had not had weak lungs! He would never have, gone to South Africa, and the history of recent years might have been totally different. He practised medicine in Edinburgh, and afterwards settled down in Kimberley. His knowledge of physics was not all thrown to the dogs, for there he cured Lobengula of an attack of gout, and a!so numbered Kruger among his patients. Then he became mixed up in Mr Ccril Rhodes' schemes, and wis appointed Administrator of Rhodesia. A year later, with a force of 600 Bcchunnaland police, he made a raid into the Transvaal from Mafekin- in support of a projected rising in Johannesburg. He had to surrender to the Boers at Dcornkcp, was sentenced to death by Judge Kotze, but later was taken, to London, where he was sent to prison for 15 months. Dr "Jim's'' only excuso in mitigation of his crime was that "revolution to be justified must bo successful—ours was not. I made a mess of it, and got 15 months, that is all He afterwards took part iu the Boer Wiir, and in 1904 was called upon to form a Cabinet.