s previous qualification not
being in order; and it was felt to be ominous that an independent and
upright judge, against whom there could be no objection, should be
passed over, and another specially imported for the occasion.

The trial was at last fixed to take place on April 27, and the
indictments were served upon the accused six days before that date.
The following is the list of those who were committed for trial:

Lionel Phillips
Colonel F.W. Rhodes
George Farrar
J.H. Hammond
J.P. FitzPatrick
S.W. Jameson
G. Richards
J.L. Williams
G. Sandilands
F. Spencer
R.A. Bettington
J.G. Auret
E.P. Solomon
J.W. Leonard
W.H.S. Bell
W.E. Hudson
D.F. Gilfillan
C.H. Mullins
E.O. Hutchinson
W. van Hulsteyn
A. Woolls-Sampson
H.C. Hull
Alf. Brown
C.L. Andersson
M. Langermann
W. Hosken
W. St. John Carr
H.F. Strange
C. Garland
Fred Gray{33}
A. Mackie Niven
Dr. W.T.F. Davies
Dr. R.P. Mitchell
Dr. Hans Sauer
Dr. A.P. Hillier
Dr. D.P. Duirs
Dr. W. Brodie
H.J. King
A. Bailey
Sir Drummond Dunbar
H.E. Becher
F. Mosenthal
H.A. Rogers
C. Butters
Walter D. Davies
H. Bettelheim
F.R. Lingham
A.L. Lawley
W.B. Head
V.M. Clement
W. Goddard
J.J. Lace
C.A. Tremeer
R.G. Fricker
J.M. Buckland
J. Donaldson
F.H. Hamilton
P. du Bois
H.B. Marshall
S.B. Joel
A.R. Goldring
J.A. Roger
Thomas Mein
J.S. Curtis{34}

The indictment served on all alike was as follows:

H.J. Coster, State Attorney of the South African Republic, who, on
behalf of the State, prosecutes, brings to the notice of the Court:

That they (citing the accused), all and each or one or more of them,
are guilty of the crime of High Treason:

Firstly: In that in or about the months of November and December in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, the
exact dates being unknown to the State Attorney, they, the said
accused, at Johannesburg, Witwatersrand Goldfields, South African
Republic, being citizens of, or residing in, this Republic, all and
each or one or more of them wrongfully, unlawfully, and with a
hostile intention to disturb, injure, or bring into danger the
independence or safety of this Republic, treated, conspired, agreed
with and urged Leander Starr Jameson, an alien, residing without the
boundaries of this Republic, to come into the territory of this
Republic at the head o