trial.  His attitude at the time is sufficiently indicated by what he wrote shortly after the trial, in defence of his action, ’I came up to put down rebellion. I have done so with a strong hand, and I believe that my judgment will bear good fruit in the future.’  The prisoners could not but contrast the action of the Government in employing and appointing, on approval, a judge who had no status whatever in the country, with their action in declining to allow Mr. Rose Innes to appear at the Bar on the pretext of his 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 of and with an armed and hostile troop, and to make a hostile invasion and to march through to Johannesburg aforesaid.