THEOCRATIC UNITY

New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 24

THEOCRATIC UNITY

HOEOS AND THE“SWAMI” covutm TED FOR TRIAL. Cu - MM UP. (Erom Our Special Correspondent! LONDON, December c * The preliminary stage of th*- f-Li A Theodore Horos, alias Jack?on reputed wife, Madame Horc? alia- --rj* Swami,” for a variety of oge’nce- agaSl? Property and persons came to an end laf? Saturaay, and the head? of the Theocratic l nity now stand conm-it* a for trial at the Old Bailey on nt? 16th ou several indictment-', riclraV ell of rape. Throughout the long drawiSu?proceedings in the Marvlcbone p o ,j“* Court tLe prisoners have been content to fight their own battle, unaided by la-rve-and taking fullest advautaee of \‘i'’ <m‘ tenai leniency toward underendea ~n - ers, ers, tne “Swami” contrived to spin Rh proceedings out—with what object alone knows. She took the who! e case her own shoulders, invariably sliuttjr, E her m ale comaiierate wiieneveT' tempted to take a hand in the ewaimGL non cf witnesses. At that geVi-e tha •Swami” aid not shine. Her question/ oiten utterly irrelevant, never to bear upon the questions at i-?ue a ß i before the case had run half its oonr<4 it became a_ foregone conclusion that "tha pair would have to race a Jude“ an,! ; nr _ at the Old Bailey. “ J From the Beginning the line ci against the graver charges could be ta «jj T made out. _ xheodore and the “Swami*’ posed as the victims oi a conspiracy* to damn Theocratic Unity, the coiNpirators being the heads of another queer relisio’-s cult, and insinuated that so far a? Theodore Horos was concerned he -,\a- pi, v . siealiy incapable of indulging Li- -ssiial cravings in the loathsome manner alleged But the evidence of a conspiracy ha? vet to be produced and Dr Scott, oi Pen ton'd!! e_ Prison, who has twice examined Theodore Horos. can find no sign- of hj s alleged incapacity. Of. rhe chaiaeter of tne orrences lie is said to have committed again -t the silly creature- he iii\eigied into the Theocratic trap, nothing can be said save this: they were of such a nature that women were barred from Court during the greater part of the proceedings, and the evidence relating thereto was dismissed by the most daring of the gutter press a- “too obscene for publication.” So far as the “Swami” i? concerned. ?he i= not charged with having indulged herself with it:e;i as her husband i- allege.] to have done with women, but the -vi-denc-e of Daisy Adams. Yeia Crnv-di'e and Laura Faulkner goes to show that in instances -lie gave Here- piiy-ie.-l ci-! in hi? immoral assaults on them. If that Be proved to the satisfaction of Judge a-,d jurv and Theodore Hoi os be held guilty of the gravest crime charged against him, we ?hall have to regret that the English rock of legal punishment contain- nothing worse than penal servitude. When the “Swami” at the beginning of the Horos prosecution declared that she had had letters from Mr \V. T. fte-i.l I- -'- repudiated wiriulv any connection with the Horn?, and led u- to believe i! »t they had. -.vithout his consent, ha,' rhtu'r letter- addressed to hi? office. Only that, and nothing more. The prosecution, however, lost week produced a cr.ui-le tf letter? from Mr Stead to Madame Swami Viva Ananda, or Rue Lauriston. Paid?. In the first he declined her offer to re-urne the publication of “Borderland.” and announced that he hoped to begin it again hi’uself. The second letter ran thus: “Mowbray House, Norfolk street. Strand, TV .C.. F-’jn-.ary 16th. ISoo.—Dear Madame, —I tiianl: yon for your letter, and I am glad to know that you are finding the work or, the Continent is prospering. I hone that your Civic TLeo?ophie centre may ba a rhares, from which light may stream eye: a darkened Continent. Good citizen* ship, free from sectarian or national limitations in France is rare indeed. Yon have a great work in hand, and I do not think you need so much to exert yourself to visualise the awful consequence? of the neglect of moral principles. They ara visible enough to all of us. What roa need to do is to make visible and real before th amoves of mankind a better social order, which would result from the adoption of sounder principles in social and political litp. T presume that my double lias not visited you again, as otherwise I am sure you would have told me.—Yours sincerely, \Y. ’i . Stead.”