They proceeded to trial a second time, and wisely endeavoured to secure a special jury, feeling that as prudential restraint would raise wages by limiting the supply of labour, they would be more likely to obtain a verdict from a jury of "gentlemen" than from one composed of workers.

This attempt was circumvented by Mr.Truelove's legal advisers, who let a _procedendo_ go which sent back the trial to the Old Bailey.

The second trial was held on May 16th at the Central Criminal Court before Baron Pollock and a common jury, Professor Hunter and Mr.J.M.Davidson appearing for the defence.

The jury convicted, and the brave old man, sixty-eight years of age, was condemned to four months' imprisonment and L50 fine for selling a pamphlet which had been sold unchallenged, during a period of forty-five years, by James Watson, George Jacob Holyoake, Austin Holyoake, and Charles Watts.

Mr.Grain, the counsel employed by the Vice Society, most unfairly used against Mr.Truelove my "Law of Population," a pamphlet which contained, Baron Pollock said, "the head and front of the offence in the other [the Knowlton] case." I find an indignant protest against this odious unfairness in the _National Reformer_ for May 19th: "My 'Law of Population' was used against Mr.Truelove as an aggravation of his offence, passing over the utter meanness--worthy only of Collette--of using against a prisoner a book whose author has never been attacked for writing it--does Mr.Collette, or do the authorities, imagine that the severity shown to Mr.Truelove will in any fashion deter me from continuing the Malthusian propaganda?
Let me here assure them, one and all, that it will do nothing of the kind; I shall continue to sell the 'Law of Population' and to advocate scientific checks to population, just as though Mr.Collette and his Vice Society were all dead and buried.