But the pain was sharp, his nerve was shaken, and after an abortive trial he found he must desist from further operations.

It emerged today that a riding accident may have prevented Charles from finding out the exculpatory information in time to have forestalled the abortive trial.

Abortive trials of Ottoman leaders after World War I left an extensive record and some confessions of responsibility.

(This line of investigation eventually resulted in the abortive trial of Wen Ho Lee.)

Hence arose quarrels and arguments; and this abortive trial, this unproved accusation, kept the public imagination in a constant ferment.

Sir Lindsay-Smith stated that he accepted the Attorney-General's opinion as conclusive and that "an abortive trial would do more harm than good."

It was clear in his abortive trial in Sacramento, Calif., last year that Mr. Kaczynski had been intrigued by the idea of using a trial as a platform for his antitechnology views.

"There is a danger now that if you mass 100,000 or one million people on the streets, it can topple the government," said Aquilino Pimentel, the president of the Senate, who presided over Mr. Estrada's abortive trial.