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Autorité et obligation de rendre des comptes · Claim record

Les propos sur la “jellyfish” attribués à Russell proviennent du témoignage sous serment de Maria Russell, lors du procès d’avril 1906, sur ce qu’une jeune femme de la maisonnée lui avait dit. Russell les a niés, le juge a estimé que l’incident était étranger au fondement de l’affaire et il a été retiré du dossier, et l’arrêt d’appel publié n’y fait aucune référence. L’organisation est la source de tout cela : elle a publié les propos, le démenti et la décision dans l’Annuaire 1975.

Claim ID claim-authority-jellyfish-statusConcerns avril 1906Contexte
Contexte · avril 1906 Contesté

Les propos sur la “jellyfish” attribués à Russell proviennent du témoignage sous serment de Maria Russell, lors du procès d’avril 1906, sur ce qu’une jeune femme de la maisonnée lui avait dit. Russell les a niés, le juge a estimé que l’incident était étranger au fondement de l’affaire et il a été retiré du dossier, et l’arrêt d’appel publié n’y fait aucune référence. L’organisation est la source de tout cela : elle a publié les propos, le démenti et la décision dans l’Annuaire 1975. 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1975Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 19 octobre 1908

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : L’Annuaire 1975 cite le juge du procès — “This little incident about this girl that was in the family, that is beyond the ground of the libel and has nothing to do with the case” — et note que l’avocat de Mme Russell a lui-même déclaré : “We make no charge of adultery.”

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Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, “Part 1—United States of America (“Not Immoral”)”

1975 · pp.69-70 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“On the witness stand C. T. Russell emphatically denied the “jellyfish” story, and all this matter was stricken from the court record, the judge saying in his charge to the jury: “This little incident about this girl that was in the family, that is beyond the ground of the libel and has nothing to do with the case.” ... In the suit for separate maintenance, Mrs. Russell's attorney had said: “We make no charge of adultery.””

The Yearbook quotes the “jellyfish” words, attributes them to Mrs Russell's testimony about what a young woman in the household had told her, and then sets out the organisation's answer: that Russell denied it, that it was struck from the record, and that Mrs Russell's own counsel disclaimed any charge of adultery.

Source officielle

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library; page markers 69 and 70 bracket the passage. The Superior Court's reported opinion, which was also read, contains no reference to this testimony, which is consistent with the Yearbook's statement that it was struck.

Corroboré par. src-ctr-ross-1913-some-facts-more-facts, src-ctr-pasuper-1908-1019-russell-v-russell

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-ctr-yb-1975-p69-jellyfish

Document public officiel Vérifié

Superior Court of Pennsylvania, “Russell v. Russell, Appellant, 37 Pa. Super. 348”

19 octobre 1908 · pp.348-354 · Orlady, J. · Superior Court of Pennsylvania

“His course of conduct toward his wife evidenced such insistent egotism and extravagant self-praise that it would be manifest to the jury that his conduct towards her was one of continual arrogant domination, that would necessarily render the life of any sensitive Christian woman a burden and make her condition intolerable. The indignities offered to her in treating her as a menial in the presence of servants, intimating that she was of unsound mind, and that she was under the influence of designing and wicked persons fully warranted her withdrawal from his house, and justified her fear that he intended to further humiliate her by a threat to resort to legal proceedings to test her sanity.”

The appeal (No. 202, April Term 1908) was brought by Charles T. Russell from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, Allegheny County (June Term 1903, No. 459), entered on a jury's verdict for Maria F. Russell. The Superior Court affirmed. The opinion also records that Russell said of his wife that “she is a woman of high intellectual qualities and of perfect moral character”, and quotes his own letter: “I conclude that I am adapted to no one, and that no one is adapted to me, except the Lord.”

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Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. The full official-reporter text was downloaded and read. The libel charged “indignities to the person”; the reporter’s syllabus is headed “Divorce — Cruel and barbarous treatment — Mental suffering — Evidence”, the head matter records the appeal as being “from decree of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1903, No. 459, granting divorce in case of Maria F. Russell, by her next friend, Emma H. Russell, v. Charles T. Russell”, and the opinion speaks of evidence sufficient “to warrant them in finding the facts essential to a lawful dissolution of the marriage tie”. This report does not itself describe the decree as one from bed and board; that wording comes from the decree as quoted in the 1975 Yearbook. The opinion makes no mention of the “jellyfish” testimony or of any allegation of adultery. One OCR break in the reporter’s text (“fully warranted hex-withdrawal from his house”) has been repaired to “her withdrawal” in the quotation above.

Provenance de la numérisation. Caselaw Access Project (Harvard Law School Library) static edition of the official reporter, Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports vol. 37.

Corroboré par. src-ctr-yb-1975-p67-separation

Notes. The head matter records the argument date as 7 May 1908 and the judgment as “Affirmed”, and names the trial judge as MacFarlane, J. The 1975 Yearbook names the trial judge as “Justice Collier”; the discrepancy is unresolved and neither name should be published as settled.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-ctr-pasuper-1908-1019-russell-v-russell

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