Why Balfour Skipped

LOSBON, Noy. 14.- The trial of Jabez Spencer Balfour, accueed of frauds in tho Liberator Building aiul Loan society and other similar organizations, was resumed with the opening for tho defense. Balfour's lawyer makiug an Ingenious atterapt to mitígate the effect of his client's abscomliug to South America. On behalf of Balfour he made an apology for the defendant's having left the country. It was a very foolish move, but he only did se upon the advice of prominent financier?. Balfour, he said, was now a broken and ruinod man, deserving sympathy rathei than condemnation.