Rutherford

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Rutherford - First name unknown. Once a famous Ingsoc leader, who participated in the underground struggle and the civil war before the Revolution. He was most famous as a caricaturist; common motives in his brutal cartoons were depictions of social misery and stereotypes of capitalists. Rutherford was described as a very large man with greasy, grey hair and thick, negroid lips.

In 1965, Rutherford was arrested together with Jones and Aaronson, two other Ingsoc leaders, and charged with treason, corruption, murder, conspiracy, and sabotage in a show-trial, charges to which he confessed to be guilty. At least one of the charges, i.e. a meeting with Eurasian generals in Siberia on midsummer's day 1963, was false - the particular day, he had attended a Party function in New York. Rutherford was rehabilitated and reinstitutioned, but arrested again and put on a show-trial, charged with new crimes against the State and Party to which he confessed, and was finally executed around 1968.