An unnamed person who had expressed a wish to get on the jury in order to "break Norris's damned neck," was cited at court to-day by the defence in urging a change of venue of the trial of the Rev. Frank Norris on the ground of the impossibility of securing justice where the most intense feeling prevailed against the accused, Witnesses testified that Mr. Meech, the mayor of Fort Worth, had undertaken to pay local law-vers $15,000 to help the prosecution.
the other hand, Mfr. Norris's church have subscribed heavily towards" the pastor's defence.
The court agreed to transfer the tial to another county.
Mr. Norris, pastor of the First Baptist. Church at Fort Worth, pleaded that he had acted in self defence when arrested on July 18} fter fatally shooting D. E, Chipps, a lumberman, in the study of the! church parsonage He told the Police that Chipps resented his recent public address and had threatened him." The pastor delivered a sensational sermon in New York] last year in which he said that the ity would be wiped out for its sins. He is also a prominent. evolutionist and a Reuter.
Paris, Nov. 3.
The French police have been showered with credit for frustrating one of the most determined Spanish revolutionary plots hatched French territory and for holding their hand until 150 of those implicated were safely within the net.
The "conspiracy is attributed to Senor Catalan, former deputy for Macia, who, however, escaped.
The arrested persons made a con-carted attempt at escape when imprisoned in Paris, but a detachment of infantry was drafted in to mount guard. Similarly, Senegale tirailleurs have been ' requisitioned to Perpignan to control those _imprisoned there who are revolting on the ground of the unsuitability. of the food, It was stated yesterday that what. was believed to be an extensive revolutionary plot directed against. Spain had been nipped in the bud by the prompt action of the police in arresting a number of persons at various points on the frontier, who, it is alleged, were furnished with field telephones and military Perpignan, Nov. 3.
Altogether 92 Spaniards ud mostly the former, were in Rovasillon in connexion with the Spanish plot. None of the arrested persons or suspects are British, as at first stated—Reuter.
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