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Article BROTHER J. LEE STEVENS. ← Page 2 of 23 →
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Brother J. Lee Stevens.
" And I respectfully request that these my denials of your right to exer" cise such powers , and the reasons assigned , may be inserted in the minutes '' of the proceedings of your AVorshipful Board . " These preliminaries settled , the Complainants proceeded to call evidence , and examined , in support of their case , Bros . Barnard , Jackson , and Truman , of the Caveac Lodge , No . 205 , and Brother Farnfield the Assistant to the Grand Secretary .
1 . To sustain the complaint that Brother Stevens " made a speech to the effect , that His Royal Highness ihe Duke of Sussex is no gentleman , because he had declined receiving a deputation , " Brother BARNARD stated , that Brother Stevens said , " Pie considered Plis Royal Highness guilty of discourtesy , or ungentlemanly conduct , in not receiving a deputation from the Asylum •" and on his cross-examination , as to what were the words used , replied , " That the meeting had an evidence of his want of courtesy , or gentlemanly conduct , in his refusing to receive the deputation . "
Brother TRUMAN ' S reply differed . " I don't recollect all that he said . A portion of it was a complaint against the Duke of Sussex for not having received a deputation from that meeting , or the Asylum . " Again : " The impression on my mind was , that Brother Stevens was blaming His Royal Highness chiefly for not receiving the deputation . " Brother JACKSON averred , that " Brother Stevens said His Royal Highness was no gentleman , because he had not received some deputation appointed hy the Asylum Committeeor Meeting . "
, Brother FARNFIELD , in reference to this charge , declared that he " had no recollection whatever . " So that , upon charge the first , Brother Barnard qualified the expression hythe alternatives " discourtesy , or ungentlemanly conduct ; " Brother Truman defined it to be a complaint ; and Brother Jackson , only , stuck to the correctness of the words quoted in his printed libel .
2 . To prove the charge that Brother Stevens " imputed King Craft , that is deception , to His Royal Highness , " the evidence ran thus : — Brother BARNARD . — " Bro . Lee Stevens , in reply to -words used by Brother M'Mullen , said , that His Royal Highness had used King Craft towards that meeting , in having sent a message to that meeting and now denying it , or sending another to a different purport . " On cross-examination , being pressed for the words used , Brother Barnard replied , " According to my impression , that having agreed to do a thing at one time and refused to do it
at another , was a species of King Craft . " And then qualified both versions by adding , " The term King Craft , used by Brother Stevens , was a play upon the words King ofthe Craft , first used by Brother M'Mullen I " Brother TRUMAN . — - "Brother Stevens made some allusion to a remark of Brother M'Mullen ' s , that there had been enough of King Craft . "—In . reply to the question , of who first used the words " King Craft , " he answered , " I believe , Brother M'Mullen ; " and as to who used them besides , " To the best of my recollection , no one but Brother Stevens and Brother M'Mullen . "
Brother JACKSON , always the boldest , because the most deeply implicated in the transaction , declared that "Mr . Stevens imputed King Craft , and imputed a deceptive mode of dealing to His Royal Highness the Most Worshipful Grand Master , " absolutely exaggerating the charge ; then " he played upon the words King Craft , and spoke of the implied sanction of Plis Royal Highness , through Brother M'Mullen , to the Asylum scheme . " AVhen waxing warmer under the excitement of uncontrollable falsehood , he ventured flatly to contradict the evidence of'his co-witnesses ( as well as of all others ) , by declaring , that " tho words ' King ofthe Craft , ' were used once or twice before , by Alderman Wood , and by Brother M'Mullen ; " and as a closer , " I decidedly say , that Brother Alderman AVood used the words first I"
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Brother J. Lee Stevens.
" And I respectfully request that these my denials of your right to exer" cise such powers , and the reasons assigned , may be inserted in the minutes '' of the proceedings of your AVorshipful Board . " These preliminaries settled , the Complainants proceeded to call evidence , and examined , in support of their case , Bros . Barnard , Jackson , and Truman , of the Caveac Lodge , No . 205 , and Brother Farnfield the Assistant to the Grand Secretary .
1 . To sustain the complaint that Brother Stevens " made a speech to the effect , that His Royal Highness ihe Duke of Sussex is no gentleman , because he had declined receiving a deputation , " Brother BARNARD stated , that Brother Stevens said , " Pie considered Plis Royal Highness guilty of discourtesy , or ungentlemanly conduct , in not receiving a deputation from the Asylum •" and on his cross-examination , as to what were the words used , replied , " That the meeting had an evidence of his want of courtesy , or gentlemanly conduct , in his refusing to receive the deputation . "
Brother TRUMAN ' S reply differed . " I don't recollect all that he said . A portion of it was a complaint against the Duke of Sussex for not having received a deputation from that meeting , or the Asylum . " Again : " The impression on my mind was , that Brother Stevens was blaming His Royal Highness chiefly for not receiving the deputation . " Brother JACKSON averred , that " Brother Stevens said His Royal Highness was no gentleman , because he had not received some deputation appointed hy the Asylum Committeeor Meeting . "
, Brother FARNFIELD , in reference to this charge , declared that he " had no recollection whatever . " So that , upon charge the first , Brother Barnard qualified the expression hythe alternatives " discourtesy , or ungentlemanly conduct ; " Brother Truman defined it to be a complaint ; and Brother Jackson , only , stuck to the correctness of the words quoted in his printed libel .
2 . To prove the charge that Brother Stevens " imputed King Craft , that is deception , to His Royal Highness , " the evidence ran thus : — Brother BARNARD . — " Bro . Lee Stevens , in reply to -words used by Brother M'Mullen , said , that His Royal Highness had used King Craft towards that meeting , in having sent a message to that meeting and now denying it , or sending another to a different purport . " On cross-examination , being pressed for the words used , Brother Barnard replied , " According to my impression , that having agreed to do a thing at one time and refused to do it
at another , was a species of King Craft . " And then qualified both versions by adding , " The term King Craft , used by Brother Stevens , was a play upon the words King ofthe Craft , first used by Brother M'Mullen I " Brother TRUMAN . — - "Brother Stevens made some allusion to a remark of Brother M'Mullen ' s , that there had been enough of King Craft . "—In . reply to the question , of who first used the words " King Craft , " he answered , " I believe , Brother M'Mullen ; " and as to who used them besides , " To the best of my recollection , no one but Brother Stevens and Brother M'Mullen . "
Brother JACKSON , always the boldest , because the most deeply implicated in the transaction , declared that "Mr . Stevens imputed King Craft , and imputed a deceptive mode of dealing to His Royal Highness the Most Worshipful Grand Master , " absolutely exaggerating the charge ; then " he played upon the words King Craft , and spoke of the implied sanction of Plis Royal Highness , through Brother M'Mullen , to the Asylum scheme . " AVhen waxing warmer under the excitement of uncontrollable falsehood , he ventured flatly to contradict the evidence of'his co-witnesses ( as well as of all others ) , by declaring , that " tho words ' King ofthe Craft , ' were used once or twice before , by Alderman Wood , and by Brother M'Mullen ; " and as a closer , " I decidedly say , that Brother Alderman AVood used the words first I"