Tears and Tantrums

Armstrong from the custody of her father without his consent. In other words, they approved his good intentions but they did not like his methods.

The trial went against the editor. Toward the end, says Terrot, he “almost succumbed to an acute fit of depression. For a time it seemed as thought he was completely drained of energy and the will to go on fighting. His eyes became dull and his whole manner listless; sometimes, in fact, he gave the impression of hardly listening to the proceedings, as though they no longer concerned him.” Stead was found guilty and sent to jail for three months. But his fits of acute depression kept recurring until his death on the Titanic in 1912. It later developed, incidentally, that little Eliza was illegitimate. She had no known father from whom Stead could have spirited her away.

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Armstrong from the custody of her father without his consent. In other words, they approved his good intentions but they did not like his methods.

The trial went against the editor. Toward the end, says Terrot, he “almost succumbed to an acute fit of depression. For a time it seemed as thought he was completely drained of energy and the will to go on fighting. His eyes became dull and his whole manner listless; sometimes, in fact, he gave the impression of hardly listening to the proceedings, as though they no longer concerned him.” Stead was found guilty and sent to jail for three months. But his fits of acute depression kept recurring until his death on the Titanic in 1912. It later developed, incidentally, that little Eliza was illegitimate. She had no known father from whom Stead could have spirited her away.