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cused of theft_) . . . MAY MORRIS.
Foreman of Jury . . . T. CANTWELL.
Jack Freeman (_a Socialist, accused of conspiracy, sedition, and obstruction of the highway_) . . . H. H. SPARLING.
Archbishop of Canterbury (_Witness for Defence_) . . . W. MORRIS.
Lord Tennyson (_Witness for Defence_) . . . A. BROOKES.
Professor Tyndall (_Witness for Defence_) . . . H. BARTLETT.
William Joyce (_a Socialist Ensign_) . . . H. A. BARKER.
Usher . . . J. LANE.
Clerk of the Court . . . J. TURNER.
Jurymen, Interrupters, Revolutionists, etc., etc.
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PART II_.
Citizen Nupkins (_late Justice_) . . . W. BLUNDELL,
Mary Pinch . . . MAY MORRIS.
William Joyce (_late Socialist Ensign_) . . . H. A. BARKER.
Jack Freeman . . . H. H. SPARLING.
1st Neighbour . . . H. B. TARLETON.
2nd Neighbour . . . J. LANE.
3rd Neighbour . . . H. GRAHAM.
Robert Pinch, and other Neighbours, Men and Women.
PART I.
SCENE.--A Court of Justice.
USHER, CLERK OF THE COURT, MR. HUNGARY, Q.C., and others. MR. LA-DI- DA, _the prisoner, not in the dock, but seated in a chair before it_. [Enter MR. JUSTICE NUPKINS.
Usher. Silence!--silence!
_Mr. Justice Nupkins_. Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury, after a very long and careful consideration of your remarkable and strange case, of a very serious offence; an offence which squeamish moralists are apt to call robbing the widow and orphan; a cant phrase also, with which I hesitate to soil my lips, designates this offence as swindling. You will permit me to remark that the very fact that such nauseous and improper words can be used about the conduct of a gentleman shows how far you have been led astray from the path traced out for the feet of a respectable member of socie