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Leeds Assizes opened on the 30th of January, 1879, and the grand jury voted a bill of indictment against Charles Peace, alias John Ward, joiner or carver or gilder. They put his age as forty-seven. This saved his counsel from a lot of unnecessary instructions.
Here was Charles Peace, on the last grand lap of his course. A man of tremendous importance, all eyes focused on him.