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Autorität und Rechenschaft · Claim record

Die Russell zugeschriebenen “jellyfish”-Worte stammen aus Maria Russells eidlicher Schilderung im Prozess vom April 1906 darüber, was ihr eine junge Frau aus dem Haushalt erzählt hatte. Russell bestritt sie, der Richter entschied, der Vorfall liege außerhalb des Klagegrundes, und er wurde aus dem Protokoll gestrichen; das veröffentlichte Berufungsurteil nimmt darauf keinen Bezug. Die Organisation ist die Quelle für all dies: Sie hat die Worte, das Dementi und die Entscheidung im Jahrbuch 1975 veröffentlicht.

Claim ID claim-authority-jellyfish-statusConcerns April 1906Zusammenhang
Zusammenhang · April 1906 Umstritten

Die Russell zugeschriebenen “jellyfish”-Worte stammen aus Maria Russells eidlicher Schilderung im Prozess vom April 1906 darüber, was ihr eine junge Frau aus dem Haushalt erzählt hatte. Russell bestritt sie, der Richter entschied, der Vorfall liege außerhalb des Klagegrundes, und er wurde aus dem Protokoll gestrichen; das veröffentlichte Berufungsurteil nimmt darauf keinen Bezug. Die Organisation ist die Quelle für all dies: Sie hat die Worte, das Dementi und die Entscheidung im Jahrbuch 1975 veröffentlicht. 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1975Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 19. Oktober 1908

Die Position der Organisation oder ihre spätere Erklärung: Das Jahrbuch 1975 zitiert den Richter — “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” — und hält fest, dass Frau Russells eigener Anwalt sagte: “We make no charge of adultery.”

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Primärveröffentlichung von Jehovas Zeugen Geprüft

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.

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Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. 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.

Untermauert durch. src-ctr-ross-1913-some-facts-more-facts, src-ctr-pasuper-1908-1019-russell-v-russell

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-ctr-yb-1975-p69-jellyfish

Amtliches öffentliches Dokument Geprüft

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

19. Oktober 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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Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. 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.

Herkunft des Scans. Caselaw Access Project (Harvard Law School Library) static edition of the official reporter, Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports vol. 37.

Untermauert durch. 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.

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-ctr-pasuper-1908-1019-russell-v-russell

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