Filizabeth Gradie, an Irish widow, was found guilty at the
-Old Bailey on Friday, July 21st, of having incendiary bombs in her possession. This charge, it will be remembered, was one of the results of the investigations made by the police on the day of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson's murder. On Monday Mr. Justice Shearman sentenced the woman to two years' imprisonment. After the prisoner had been removed he made some deeply-felt observations on the nature of the cases he had tried recently—these included the trial of the murderers of Sir Henry Wilson. His words were memorable, and call for a fuller quotation than we are able to give :- " It is clear that some of 'the crimes I have to deal with have emanated from people who glorify murder and incendiarism. I am not gifted with a subtle mind, but.to melt is incomprehensible how any system of Christianity, or any system of morality, or any system of justice can co-exist with such. a belief. It seems to me that some of these people with whom I have to deal are sadly in need of spiritual advice. I do not see any need for panic or any other emergency punishment at the present time. I do not say that legislation is not properly on tho Statute Book, but I see no reason. at present for juries to be influenced by vindictiveness or swerving from the scrupulous part of examining all the the evidence and seeing that it justifies a conviction."
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