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HAYLEY MORRISS LIBEL CASE.
DRAMATIC EVIDENCE AT RESUMED HEARING."
LOADED GUN BESIDE HIS BED.
CHARGES AND COUNTER-CHARGES.
Before Mr. Justice Horridge and a Special Jury in the King's Bench
after she became your wife -I had row with Madeline Roberts.
Was that because you carried on
You were not called either No; The plaintiff: It was a put-up if I had gone into the witness-box I job and the Home Secretary had should have incriminated Madeline ulterior motives, I am waiting for Roberts..
the next Government in the hope that I can obtain justice.
The woman who," you say, had been blackmailing you for months! Yes, I realized that I could not, with honour, go into the witness box and incriminate Madeline as I had married her and she expected to become a mother."
Was hot another reason that you could not, on oath, dispute the evi- prosecution -No; that was not the. dence of the girls called for the reason at all..
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SCOUTING ATTACKED.
"TALKING THROUGH THEIR HATS" AT MONMOUTH, Mr. Elowers: You say that you were blackmailed, that the girls who Attacks on. the Boy Scout move- gave evidence were all of loose ment were made at the annual character, and that your own coun-assembly of the Monmouthshire sel let you down. Is there anybody Congregational Union at Newport. else Is that a fair question!
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His Lordship: Quite. The plaintiff Then there are other people I should like to attack. Mr. Flowers: It was your duty to protect these young girls in your
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Mr. Enoch Lawton referred to the incalculable harm and mis- chief done by Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and all this nonsense."
The Rey C. J. Barry, of New- part, said he thought there was always a danger of young people's
Division the hearing was continued with other girls 1-Sho engineered and allowed not a single question house-Provided they behaved pro- movements in the churches swing-
Mr. Flowers: You sat in the dock to be put to the girls about their characters I have told you that I was let down.
of three consolidated, libel actions the carrying on with other girls for brought by Mr. Hayley Eustace the purpose of blackmailing me. Morriss, of. Pippingford Park,
A Qualification.” Sussex, against United Newspapers Roberts before or after your mared unless it was proved that they Did you ever whip Madeline 1918), Limited, in respect of articles riage with her I never whipped, which appeared in Chronicle and the Sunday News.
aber in my life. May I qualify that
His Lordship: Yes,
Mr. Carr, continuing his opening said the alleged incidents about Grace Stevens having been forced to consent to the plaintiff's advances by being beaten with a boot-tree were pure invention,
Climb from Window, Under the heading "Climb from Window," said counsel, was what purported to be Grace Stevens's statement to her mother. After stating that the plaintiff hit her many times with the boot-tree be- cause she would not go to his room, the article continued:
You could not have been convict. were girls of good character ?-That is why I say, I was lot down. It is disgraceful that my witnesses were not called..
perly.
The plaintiff further said that all the girls, with one or two excep tions, made suggestions to him with a view to blackmailing him.
Mr. Flowers: Why did you not put a stop to it That is what I want to know now.
The plaintiff also said that. dur- Rotused Leave to Appeal.
ing the trial at Lewes witnesses, were told what to admit and what The plaintiff said that he was not to deny by nods and shakea of the defended properly, and added-head by a sepresentative from the was refused leave to appeal. I want Public Prosecutor's office. to appeal to the House of Lords, Mr. Flowers: Do you suggest that and the Home Secretary dare not in a criminal prosecution of this let me do so because he knows I kind he was wicked enough to direct should win my case.
the witness I am not suggesting it; I say definitely that he was..
The hearing was adjourned.
Mr. Flowers: You went to the Court of Criminal Appeal?-Yes, and my application for leave to ap peal was refused.
time before.I was arrested, Made- The plaintif: Some considerable line Roberts made excuse to leave the Crow's Nest in circum- stances, which provoked my sus picion. I followed her and found that she met a man at East Grin stead Railway Station and had gone to a hotel with him for about two hours. I told her that I was done with her and would have nothing more to do with her. Finally she went on her knees and asked me to forgive her, and I did so. Sho then said I am so sorry for what I Dodging him. I climbed out of Lave done. If you will give me a-No, it was not. the window which was in the upper spanking I will never do it again." part of the house, and by clutching I gave her a friendly spanking the climbers and creepers I got to (laughter) which could not have the ground. I knew he would hit hurt her. A day or two later she. me again when he caught me..... effended me and asked me to spank When I entered the house I heard, her again. I replied: "I believe dreadful screams coming from one you, like being spanked; therefore, of the roours, and when I got there, I won't." I screamed, too. Morriss was stand-
ing over Madeline with a big leather dog-whip in his hand, and he thrash- ed her with it.
Counsel held up a small dog-whip, which, he said, was the only one in the bocse..
Mr. Carr: Is that the only pos- sible foundation for any suggestion of violence 1-Yes.
Was that many months before she became your bride 7-Yes.
The plaintiff said that he had never struck Madeline in the face. Mrs. The article continued:-
Stevens never complained to him He tried to strike me also when of his having ill-treated her daugh- he saw me, but I dodged him, and ter or anyone else. He never sug when he left Madeline I went to her.gested that he intended to commit I asked her the reason for Morris's suicide or that Madeline Roberts, 'cowardly conduct. He has thrash- Mrs. Stevens, or anybody else
ed me because you escaped from his should commit suicide with him. room," she said, "and he has toldj me that if you don't do, as he wants you to be "will thrash me again."
The allegations that the plaintif staged orgies and was guilty of other mad conduct were of minor significance, but when they came to the allegations as to his ill-treat- ment of his wife it was a matter which justified him in asking a jury to punish the libeller, said Mr. Carr.
The Plaintiff's Evidence, The plaintif, giving evidence, said that he was still living at Pipping- ford Park, which he bought towards the end of June, 1992 It comprised 06 acres and was rough farm There was a derelict mansion which had not been occupied for many years. He lived in a house on the farm known as the Crow's Nest. It was assessed at "£35.
Mr. Carr: It is suggested in these articles that you are a man of great wealth 1-I am not.
The plaintiff said that he first met Madeline Roberts at the Palais de
Not a Life of Leisure.
Mr. Carr: Did you have a loaded gun beside your bed -Yes; for & few days after a robbery at my house. I always had a sporting gun in the house.
Answering farther questions, the plaintiff denied that he thrashed
adeline with a dog whip or that when he got angry. He did not he swore and shouted at people
threaten Mrs. Stevens or throw an ornament at her, and it was untrue that she toppled him headlong downstairs." She did not escape from the house at midnight, nor did he chase her in
moter-car.
The girl Grace first came to the house without his knowledge or con- sent. He never asked her to go to his room and he did not strike her because she refused.
Cross-examined by Mr. Flowers, years of age. the plaintiff said that he was 41 night think he had a good income, The average man but in his opinion he had not.
Was there any other man living at the Crow's Nest besides your self-Yes, on occasions.
Mr. Flowers: You were living a life, of leisure at Pippingford Park? Danse, Hammersmith, and the nextI was not. I was farming, and day she came to live with him at had the third largest pig farm in Pippingford Park. He married her England, on October 28, 1995. It was not true that his prosecution was the reason for his marriage, and he had never told anyone that it was. About six weeks before he was arrested he heard that Miss Roberts was about to have a child and, believing that he was the father" and that she might give birth to the child while iz prison, he thought that the least he could do for the infant was to legitimate it. His father, in his will, had left considerable property to his grandchildren,
to
He (the plaintiff) was sentenced two years' imprisonment with hard labour and one year's imprison- ment, to run consecutively, and his wife was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.
man permanently resident in the Generally There was no other house."
there 1-Yes, on different occasions. A number of young girls came
as servants-kennel-maids, and so They came there ostensibly to act forth 1-Not all
Nearly all 7-Yes.
Counsel put a number of questions concerning the girls with whom it was alleged the plaintiff had ime moral relations at his house.
Grace Stevens,
Questioned abové Grace Stevens, the plaintiff said that he was not at He provided for her at the Crow's the Crow's Nest when she was first Neat, but, in consequence of infor- brought there,. He had relations mation which came to him, he in- with her mother's knowledge, and stituted divorce proceedings, the before then he was blackmailed by co-respondent being Detective Dad. Mrs. Stevens, Madeline and Grace, ley Wood, whom he had met six and had paid them all money. Once weeks before his arrest. He knew he gave, Mrs. Stevens £30 and on him as Sir Dudley Wood, but was at least 90 occasions be sent her not aware at the time that he was amall sums by her daughters.
a detective. The suit for divorce! Mr. Flowers: Why did you not was undelended, and he obtained a turn them out of your house -I decree.
tried to.
The Garb of Virtue.
The plaintiff said that Grace Taken through the articles, the Stevens forced her attentions on plaintiff denied that he ever strut him. Even before he had anything ted about in the garb of virtue to do with her the threatened that or held himself out to be a person she would expose him. Madeline of any special moral character. To also told him that he would have his knowledge there had been no to send money to her mother every orgies staged at Pippingford Park. week, and he did so. He became so He had never, bullied or beaten miserable because of the blackmail- Madeline Roberts or been cruel to ing that life was not worth living. ber.......
He became convinced that he would In answer to further questions, have to keep the family always. the plaintiff denied that he lived In answer to his Lordship, the in a lonely retreat. There were two plaintiff made "long" statement as lakes on the estate, and on about to the way in which he was "trick- three occasions in 1925 some persons ed by Madeline and her sister. bathed there, but there were no orgies or bathing parties Everyone he saw there wore a bathing co ture and behaved in a respectable
manner.
He did not engineer en audacious conspiracy to try to defeat the ends of justice.
His Lordship: The answer to my question is that they blackmailed you before you had relations with the girl Grace 1-Yes..
Mr. Flowers: You say that all girls were immoral before they came to your house. Was any one of them questioned at your trial as to her previous character-1-No; I maintain that I was let down at my
Mr. Carr: Did you betray any daughter of Mr. Stevens I have never betrayed anybody in my life. trial by my counsel' and everybody www.Didge base may tertiola Towa Wncerned. Not one of my withetser
with Madeline Roberts, before or was called.
Tour application was fully heard f
Did not the Lord Chief Justice
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Mr. Comyns Carr objected. His Lordship: I think it can be put in as a matter of character.
Mr. Flowers (reading from the the Lord Chief Justice stated that Criminal Appeal Reports) said that a more appalling case of the kind was not within the recollection of the Court. If the law permitted it the appellant merited a long term of penal servitude, and if a sentence of ten years had been passed on him bis counsel could have had nothing to urge against it.
The plaintiff Iwas tricked into prison by faked evidence.
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