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HAYLEY MORRISS LIBEL ACTION.
THREE WRITS AGAINST UNITED NEWSPAPERS,
45
LIMITED.
LCHO OF PIPPINGFORD PARK CASE.
STORIES PUBLISHED WHILE WAS IN PRISON.
PLAINTIFF
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929,
BY MAIL, WIRE, AND WIRELESS.
Berlin. The Reichstag has sanc tioned the recently concluded air traffic agreements with Holland and Norway.
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Pernment has decided to erect a new 10 kilowatt shortwave wireless station near the capital, and an- other one at leaborg. The exist ing stations at Wiborg and Tam- merforts will be improved. The total cost is estimated at 3.5 million Finnish marks.
of
Moscow.-The production naphtha in the Soviet Union dur
Before Mr. Justice Horridge and It has been supposed that Made a Special Fury in the King's Benchline Roberts, the pretty servant girl Division recently, the hearing was whom Morriss eventually married, "begun of three consolidated libet was the one real romance in his
actions brought by Mr. Hayley life. But with this girl seated being the first half of the present rustace Morriss, of Pippingford side him in the dock there was Park, Sussex, against United brought to light a story that he had. Newspapers (1918), Limited, in bullied and beaten her and sub- respect of articles which appeared | jected her to his cruelties. in the Daily Chronicle and the Sunday News,
SNARL AT JUDGE..
Hayley Morriss bared his teeth and snarled when the Judge voiced Morris is held by his fellows..
economic year amounted to 6,350,000 tons, being 17.5 per cent, more than the production during the first half of the preceding year.
Moscow.-The press
publishes alarming reports of the situation on the Russo-Afghan border, where thousands of Afghan bandits are
ing women who do not wear veils. It is declared that the bandits are
THE FUTURE.
For more than
D
dozen years
on the Canton-Hong Kong service. The vessel, which is at present undergoing an overhand at the Kowloon Docks will berth alongside (anya a London paper) we have the Chiu On wharf, on the water- regarded the shape of our tele- front alongside the as. Hydrangea.
The vessel was formerly owned by phones as final-as though what the an Italian Shipping Company, at and affeurs brought the vessel out officials call, rather prettily, the Trieste and her original master candlestick telephone" were a sul- to Hong Kong. It is understood ficiently exact replica of the ideal they will remain with the vessel telephone which exists platonically for about six months. She is stated to have a low draft of only 7 feet, in the mind of the Postmaster- General. But in the meantime tele-of completing the journey to Can- and a speed of 90 knots, capable phone evolution has not been stand- ing still. It is now announced that ton in a much shorter time than the Post Office engineers will pre-
the present river-boata Her ap sently be in a position, to allow all pearance is similar to the Channel
reasonably capable of bearing, the the loathsome contempt in which exercising a regime of terror, kill those who "prefer it to revert to a
The defendante deny that the werda complained of bore, or were meanings alleged by the plaintiff and, further or alternatively, plead that the words were true in sub- stance and in fact.
WILD 21%,
Girl at Bathing Parties in Pipping-
ford Park Lake.
At first he contented himself by satisfying his debauched cravings without putting himself in danger of the tw. He staged wild orgies in his lonely retreat and motored parties down from London in his Rolls-Royce car to join him in his depraved excesses.
Mr. Comyns Carr, in opening the case, said that the alleged libels were published in circumstances which had become all too common in recent years. The defendants had considered it right" for their own purposes to publish about the plaintiff, while he was suffering a sentence for serious crime, any
It is said that Morriss has spent foul matter which they thought fit
as much as £3,000 upon his defence and which, they could scrape up
and if the Judge's suspicions open- from sources however unreliable, so as to appeal to the love of sonsay voiced in Court are true he used tion among a certain class of its readers.
Contradictory Statements. "The plaintiff said that the slightest inquiry by the dolendant company would have shown them,
aterials in their possession would have shown them if they had
taken, the trouble to investigate the matter, that the informants on whose statements they purported to be relying were people who had made utterly contradictory state- ments on oath and otherwise woont the very same matters.
The defendants published the articles because this man was out of the way at the time, and be cause they thought that when he did come out of prison he would be a man so discredited by the con viction recorded against him and by the circumstances of that con- viction that he probably would not venture to bring the case before a jury.
extremely well equipped, and are aiming to re-establish the Emir at
Bubkara with British assistance.
Shanghai. The French municipal 7 per cent. loan of 1999 was fully subscribed it is officially announced. The Chinese population, it is stated, played its part in subscribing the loan, which, it is believed, is the first occasion Chinese residents municipal loans here. have contributed largely to foreiga
Washington.-Delegate Dan A Sutherland of Alaska has announc
his wealth and his cunning brained that he would propose in the to engineer an audacious conspiracy to try to cheat justice.
Dans of Prool
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type of telephone which we were familiar with before the war. It is known technically as the micro- telephone,'
and resembles the in- strument, which we see Post Office
steamers at Home.
She was built in 1906 as the s.a Kingfisher, by Mesars. W. Denny Brothers. Dumbarton, with a nett tonange of 847 tons and gross 088 tona. She has three turbine en gines which were installed by the builders. Her dimensions are:-
Length, 273 feet; Beam, 32.1 feet; and Depth. 10.9 feet.
Captain T. W. Crago is in com-
engineers using when, head and shoulders above ground, the rest of them in a manhole, they talk gently to the Exchange while traffic whirls all round. them, and lines are cross-mand. ed, and subscribers' bells ring timidly, and operators murmur
Sorry you've been troubled." It is, in fact, that type of telephone in which the transmitter and the receiver are all in one piece.
This is a type of telephone which was abolished because its form in House of Representatives to involved certain fundamental difficul- crease by 15 per cent. the 25 per ties. The distance from the receiver cent. rate on canned salmon, to, meet Japanese and Russian com petition."
Captain Madden Returns, Captain Geo. Madden, formerly in command of the Hong Kong & Canton Steamboat Company's ves sel Lungsbau has returned from furlough from Australia on the sa Tango Maru, He has relieved Captain Lylic as skipper of the 8.8. Sui Tai.
to the mouthpiece was standardised. Captain Lylie will supervise re- Unfortunately, as a Post Office construction work on the Com official reminded a Press represen-pany's wharf, tative, you cannot standarding faces. Some mouths were too near the transmitter; others were too far away.
Counsel said that not a word of the article was true. He would be
Three Wuchow Steamers Sail. in a position to end in addition to Lindoening.-A new and ingenious
Three Wuchow steamers have de the plaintiff a number of witnesses, gas alarm apparatus has just been most of them employed in and about invented here by two engineers, A.
cided to make the West River trip. The s.8. Kochow (Captain" Man. his estate of 1,000 neres which he Olson and. P. Peterson. The device
Technical Defects.
ners) left here for Wuchow, od farmed and in which he kept pigs consists of a supersensitive scale,
And there were technical defects. Wednesday evening. Should she and valuable dogs. He was bound fitted in an oval metal box, which by the conviction but net by any is placed in the ceiling. When It has been found, for instance, that need any assistance the British thing else, and the plaintiff strenuilluminating gas escapes, it rises the standard transmitter gives the gunbon: Cecila, at present anchor- ously denied that he engaged in upward, being lighter than air, best results when it is almost vered off Shara Shui, will be available. any conspiracy whatever to defeat and the scale immediately responds tical; but the micro-telephone allow. the ends of justice.
to the difference in weight between ed the transmitter to be held at any nected with the apparatus is an the atmosphere and the gas. Coù-angle, and it was as often horizontal electric bell which rings as soon as the scale gets out of balance.
It was for the defendants to prove that he did, and it was not for the newspaper which had published that article in that reckless manner to say that they could escape, from the consequences of what they had done by throwing mud at plaintiff.
the
On February 0, 1026, the Daily Chronicle published a notice headed
Knoxville.-More than $200 has gone into a bank here during the last two years credited to "Buddy,"
a dog belonging to By using his George Worsham. paw mark, the dog can draw money
as vertical.
Of late the American telephone service has introduced a type of instrument which, while it resembles outwardly the old micro-telephone, is in essentials an entirely different instrument and remedies most of the defects of the old one. The British engineers have now made an instru- ment which is even better than the
The defendants came with the plea on the record that the statements were true. Therefore they (the jury) would have to con of Mrs. Hayley Morriss revenis ture" drew 8200 from the bank to sider, and would endeavour to con- startling facts, and stating that make a payment. on his master's sider without prejudice against this Stranger things than any report-home. man, whatever the crimes he might led in police or assize court have have committed, whether the state-happened recently at Pippingford Pfaffstadt-A 17-year-old girl of "ments in those libels were true about Park, That notice called atter- this city named Martina, who has tion to what was to be published in the Sunday News.
Articles relating to the plaintif appeared in the Sunday News of February 7, 14, and 21, 1026.
A Daughter's Betrayal Mother from the bank. A recent aigna-American pattern. Quite how the
hip.
The plaintiff was convicted on December 17, 1925, of having un- lawful connection with a number of young girls, some of whom were between 13 and 16 years of age, it' a place in Sussex called Piping filed an affidavit of documents, but The defendants, said counsel, had ford Park. There was charged and from start to finish there was convicted with him a woman who reference whatever to their having at the time of the conviction was his wife, but abo at the time when of the Story of My Daughter's in their possession the manuscript the offences alleged against him Betrayal," supposed to be written were committed was living with him ay his mistress. at that address." Mrs. Stevens. Nor was there the The woman was convicted of the offence of aiding and abetting.
Serious Crimes,
smallest reference to any book or account showing what, if anything, the defendants ever paid her for writing or supplying them with the article.
Authorship Dentet. The only assumption was that she
.
difficulty of unstandardised faces and uastandardised voices has been
got over is not revealed suffice it
Last night the 8.8. Sanning (Captain Best) and the .. Chung On (Captain Robinson) sailed with a number of passengers and cargo.
The other vessels, Kong Ning, Kong So, Tai Ming and Tai Hing, have not yet decided their sailing dates, but in all probability these steamers will also resume service shortly.
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that the engineers are satisfied. A pleasing ceremony was perform- The new telephones are to be finally ed at Calcutta on board the P. & O tested under working conditions for 8.8. Manela when a medal, for been booked to appear in an Eng a few weeks, and then they will bravery was presented to the Chief lish review, stands 7 feet 7 inches be available for all subscribers who Officer, Mr. C. Macfarlane, who tall and is still growing. prefer them. It is said that they was serving on the steamer Chakia
Mass Buried will be just as good as, though no in November, 1997. Cambridge,
The Chakla was on her way from mineral treasure, now inaccessible, better than, the normal candelstick the marvels of science, which will and this charge will fall on the sub-middle of a storm she sighted eventually will be reached through type. They will cost more to make, Bombay to Karachi when in the make it possible to burrow nearly
largedhow' breaking up under two miles atraight down into the
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of Professor L. C.
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Berlin-The Formaerts, the or- gan of the Social Democrat Party, foreshadows the strongest possible resistance on the part of the Socia! Democratic Party to the alleged in- tention of the Cabinet to introduce a new tax on wheat in order to iabilize the price, in case it should
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A Few Possibilities.
Thosa
Naturally there are many circum-stopped her engines and drifted to- wards the helpless dhow, which stances in which the new telephones will be more convenient.
was in imminent danger of break ing into pieces. who, like so many modern stage- heroines, prefer to do their tele phoning from bed, will no doubt make all haste to acquire the sort of instrument which allows one hand still to snuggle under the bed- clothes. Similarly those who, like people in films, prefer to hide their telephones in klaborate cabinets, will doubtless find the new instru- ments easier to conceal..
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The Most Serious Part, The story published, said counsel,
At 10 excited meeting of Mabomedans held later it was urged that ten Hindu lives should be taken in revenge.
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Those crimes were serious and terrible and he (counsel) was not coming before them to say either' that the plaintiff was not proper.
never wrote the articles at all, but ly convicted or that he was not a man whose conduct at that time and that they were concocted in the during a period of about 12 months office of the Sunday News. The whole of the article of February 14 -preceding the conviction was not of A very seriously reprehensible kind was a complete and total fabrica. from a moral point of view. What tion from start to finish: The he was there to say was that nopiointiff never beat his bride. He Jiever used violence and aever crime of which a man could be con victed justified a newspaper in sought to overenine" the,, resistance publishing of him while he was in or objection of any of the girls prison statements which were unwith whom he was associated true and which would make his Counsel read from the article of crime immeasurably more. serious February 14, of which the follow
ing are extracts: even than it was.
The circumstances of the publica- "The bride and" bridegroom tion were these. The defendants were having a terrible row. just as were the owners of two newspapers I entered the room. Morrisa struck -the Daily Chronicle and the Sun-Madeline (his wife) a blow on the day News. The most serious parts face... "You ought to be of the libels were published in the | ashamed of yourself," I exclaimed. Sunday New
I am master in my own house, " The first article that was com he shouted, “and I will do ne I plained of appeared in the Sun please, "It was not long day News of December, 90, 1995, after the wedding that I saw Morris immediately after the trial had thrash Madeline with a whip..
was put out to satisfy the craving a Hindu qu Two men, and one Warrington as a marvellous driver. of some readers for any nonsense. taken place. It occupied a whole Madeline had accused him of going It was suggested that the plaintiff page and whe
embellished with to London to meet one of the girls married only because he was forced photographs of the two accused with whom he had carried on preto in order to avoid his wife being persons and of a woman who gave viously.
I then saw
him compelled to give evidence against evidence in the case.
raise a big leather dog whip and him. He would state in the wit Begin to thrash her. She screamedness-box that the marriage was ab. Lout to me for belp, and I called out | solutely genuine. It was headed-
to him to leave her alone.
The most serious part of the libel "How Hayley Morriss used his
Madeline was bleeding from the had reference to the girl Grace, who serve base ends." mouth, and I became enraged; in was then 15 years of age. The wealth to "Pretty Foung servant girl his fact, I saw red. He was standing at plaintiff took the view with regard partner in crime" "Man's dual the top of the stairs and in my to that that the whole matter was a personality. It went on to say: fury I rushed at him and he top-scheme to blackmail him. To any The extraordinary personality of pled headlong down the stairs that he forced that child by violence Hayley Morrisa, the man who strub ted about in the garb of virtue long stay with Madeline that Grace infinitely more horrible than any It was near the end of her first and threats to submit to him was while he indulged in secret the was asked by Morriss to go to his thing that could be sustained by vicious promptings of a base room.
She refused and he asked the actual facts. nature, is laid bare hera by one her again. As she persisted in her The defendants knew when they who has watched him and studied refusal, he ruck her terrific
whack across the face with his hand. published the bel that the girl had hm closely throughout the trial.
Morrise aeither smoked nor He threatened to hit her with a sated that she ran about all day drank, but behind the veil of trees boot-tree. She cried and screamed and was as happy as any thatgh the grounds of his albud Os this, be picked up the thing. The whole story was zb luxurious country mansion at Pip Foot-tree and belaboured her with solutely without foundation pingford amazing orgies were it." staged
The Chiet Libel.
(Continued on next Column).
Mr. Carr had not-concluded his opening when the Court adjourned.
Following this, it appears that a Mahomedan with a gun entered shot ten people and made oft woman died immediately two died in the hospital, and three were seriously injured. The police are investigating.
No arrest has yet been reported.
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