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THE RECTOR OF STIFFKEY
COUNSEL'S SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE.
LEGION OF WOMEN HELPED: **
BUSYBODY."
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The Consistory Court inquiry inta bowls matches against the Club de
the seruations of immoral conduct Recreio on Saturday.-
First team at Club de Recreio :-hought against the Rev. H. E R. Duncan, "D. ¥. Phillips, R. S. Dayidson, rector of Stiffkey, was Nichol and A. M. Holland (Skipresumed on May 19 by Chancellor H. F. Stoneham, C. S. Bent. HF K. North, at Church House. Nish and W. Russell (Skip).
G. N. Mitchell, A. K. Taylor, R. Hall and E.. W. L. Hogbin (Skip).
Becond team as Kowloon Bowling
Green Club: --
GH. Sherria, J. S. Logan, W. E. Hale and W. S. Drake (Skip).
W. Veniables, C. Hatt. J. G, Moyer and F. L. Rapley (Skip).
S. Ashworth, F. V. Whitta, T. Gooding and H. H. Rose (Ship).
HOME CRICKET
KENT' GO DOWN TO CHAMPIONS
FYRRÓVON RETTER'S AGENCY.)
London, June 14. A. C. Rhodes, the young York- shire fast bowler who made his debut for the county in their match against Oxford early in the sensori, acored a big success when York shire defeated Kent by four wickets at Tonbridge. Rhodes took wickets for 48 rune. when Kont hatted for the second time after a poor exhibition in their first knock Bowes helped Rhodes to get Kent oub. for 75 runs in their second effort, tre former's figures being 4 for 20.
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It will be remembered that these counties were booked to play cach other at Sheffield on May 28, but a rain fell during the whole of the three days allotted to the match, the game was washed on."
Kent took first knock in the match which commenced last Saturday and to their total of 196, Yorkshire replied with 207. "Fich" Freeman again showed that he had lost none. of his skill, taking 8 wickets for 105
runa..
Westminster.
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fnets were susceptible to purely in nocent construction, as well as the construction of guilt.
Mr. Lory and that he would give one or two examples of what he He mentioned Rotty Bench. mennt. against whose virtue and reputation The day was wholly taken up not one word could be alleged, who with the opening of the ractor's lived with her husband in Mol defence by Mr. R. F. Levy, Councombe-pince Mr. Davidson had st spoke for five hours, and when the Court rose he intimated that he would require an hour or two this morning to conclude his speech. It is Moped to call twenty or more witnesses for the defence. The num- her will probably depend upon the funds available, which are under- stood to be at present much short of what is required. Should the rrrior's counsel and solicitors have
known her for two years, and was a visitor to her But, welcomed by her husband as well as herself. Some of the detectives employed by Mesar's, Arrow's Agevey discovered that on two or three occasions during the twenty days in which they followed him Mr. Davidson went to Mrs. Beach's flat, some-
alse, with "someone times
Mr. Davidson was never given a chance
te retire in this ground, the rector of expinining anything. The charge
wi continue his defence without legal aid.
was raised that the defendant dur-
ing the last five years had habitual The restor was represented by Mr. y agunciated with women of loose B. F. Levy, Mr. K. J. P."Barra-
character for immoral purposes, elough, and Mr. E. Ryder Richard-and one of the particulars put for sol Counsel for the Bishop were
ward in that charge was 3r. David- Mr. Rolned Oliver, K.C.. Mr.Jon's relations with Mrs. Batty Walter Monckton, K.G., and Mr.
Beach. Upon that evidener Mrs. Humphrey, King Mr. Graham
Beach was lazoned forth to the Brooks, counsel, appeared on behalf world na n woman of Innan chazae- of an interested party.
ter.
Immediately Mr. Chancellor One might have expected somenne North had taken his sent Me. Levy to be enfled to give evidence that began his opening speech for the this was a woman who was leading
In Jeen life,
defence.
Mr. Levy said that the Chapellor must have réalised" that in all the evidence given so far there was only one piece of direct evidence against Mr. Davidson--that of the girl Barbara Harris.
But not a word. Her character having been assailed, but no evi. defice having been called in support of it, the charge remained, and was persisted in to the end. Mrs. Bench was insulted and persecuted in this In the absence of any real and way without being given, herself, actual evidence, except that of any sort of chance of saying, "It Barbara Harris, Mr. Oliver had is untrue," They were charges had to look around for other mat-which no one would dare to make ters which could be put before the outside that court. Court as substitution for evidence.
As in Distorting Mirror,
One would have thought that at the end the prosecution would have No one could have, listened to M.withdraw the charge and express-
The hop county were in a sorry plight when they went in for the second time for what with young Rhodes grting & for 48 and Bowes taking the remaining four wickets Oliver's speech without realising the ed regret for having made it. But
for 28 runa, they were
HOOn digamazing forensic skill with which missed for the sun total of 75. Yorkshire then went in to knock off he built up and evented an atmos the required us for the loss of phere of suspicion and distortion wickets.
The scores were:- Kont, at innings. Yorkshire, 1st innings
Kent, 2nd innings
Rhodes, for, 48, Bowes, 4 for 26.
Yorkshire. 2nd innings (for
Bwickets)
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not a bit of it. Conduct of that kind on behalf of the prosecution was an outrage upon the very name of justice and decency, to the ever-
"A Troublesome Busybody." Mr. Levy then referred to Miss Dorothy Burn, a waitress in f Lyons tea shop. She was, he said.
in which nothing could be present-lasting shame of the prosecution. e in truc, normal, and ordinary 20% eonditions, but everything, however innorent, assumed an appearance of distortion and guilt, as though were looking in a distorting mirror and seeing everything in a falsited aspect.
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Que of the hundreds of girls to whom Mr. Davidson spoke from time to time. He was the sort of Many would depronte the neces
person who spoke to anyone he came sity of crenting such an atmosphere into contact with, but in respect of in a charge like the present. They Miss Barn he was charged with be felt it was not the duty of the pro-ing guilty of immoral conduct in narution to rely upon distortion and that he annoyed and made impro-
per suggestions to her. prejudice, but to place before the Court calmly and fairly the facts of the case, and possibly, even with some degree of magnanimity, to JAPAN'S opponents in the semi-point our to the Court wherein those
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He will insist upon talking to propla, asking them about them- Esivon, and he will insist upon tolling them everything about himself. He is and I may it in his presence, a troublesome busy- body."
He annoyed Miss Burn; that was. true. The allegation that he made improper suggestions was lament ably and obviously false.
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turned and bitten the hand that has employed her at the rentory da a fed her.
inzid: "For the last twenty-Avo„"or
She was not a very satisfactory thirty yours Mr. Davidson has taken this view of his duty: That Davidson to most girls in the street maid and she came book to Lon- it was his duty to do good in san perhaps in difficulties or on to do. Mr. Davidson took a room waya na ho thought he could, not verge of embarking on a life of that for her. He visited her for overal by sitting in the richer drawing sort and, finding them without a reasons, mainly because he wanted rooms of his parish and taking ten home, to sand them to his room and to keep her madur supervision. Sho with the ladies he might wish to put them in his bed, and himself did many things for Mr. Davidson curry favour with, but by coming walk about the streets in their tidied up his room, did his sow. down to London, where, by the way,place. There was an occasion whoning and meshing, and did a great
he found near his home at Stiffkey deal of arretarial work for him,
During at least the Arst two years Miss Burn was one of the per- he had business, and carrying on a swns whom I asked if he ever showed work to which, he has dedicated his two tramps, a man and his wife,
sult of the life sho had lot, sho was any sign of impropriety and the life. It was n work, not so much homeless, pepustless and without Mr. Davidson know her, as the re food, mad he outraged his wife by suffering not only from hystoría, vi rescue, answer was, No, he did not.'"
but a work of prevention, bringing them into his home and which bordered on dementia, bur It might well be that she mis-and that is why he has bean vory
giving them bed and food. That is fram disena. largely concerned with young
the sort of temperament this man took his intentiona.
girla."
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Mr. Davidson was a man of con- sidorable knowledge and experi- ence, and knew that the req]nmation of those who had completely fallen
He had no doubt that many girls were very suspicious of any man who was not introduced, and it was very right that that should be so. That was not sufficient evidenen, however, ou which to base a charge of that kind. Mr. Levy next dealt with the case of Vibiet Lowe, a waitress in triavably lost, but in trying to keep Chinese restaurant, whom Mr. Davidson is alleged to have nevöst- ed, molested and importaned with Immoral intent. He said that the
Rose Ellis', Guardian Rose Ellia was one of the unfor- tunste women in whom Mr. David-
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Mr. Levy, remarking that he had imagined this would be an impar. tial inquiry, asked again way tha Prosecution had not called Rose Ella.
The Chancellor: Do you any Rose Ellis could support the deface?
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was almost impossible. Be know so took an interest, which started more useful work could be done in some ten years ago. He met her trying to reclaim not those irre- when she was a young girl in ab ¡COMING TO THE KING'S just misery, BShe had been through
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from the same fate those hot so far
a ceremony of marriage with n upon the downward path. It was man who ultimately turned out to Mr. Davidson hot true by a long way that his be a married man.
saw her mother, and got her con charity, which was usually not in
evidence was that once Mr. David money, but in encouragement, was sub to him constituting himself as com showed the girl a perfectly pro-limited to young women. He and the girl's guardian. Au agreement
per photograph of a stage celebrity On mother occasion he said he would like to see her again, and a third time, meeting her in the street, asked her where she was going. "Did he ever do anything." asked Mr. Lavy, that smacked or savoured or suggested impropriety
No."
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others would tell of a history of was drawn up and signed. He did| AMBASSADOR
all in his power to try to keep her from the sort of life she had been leading before she went through sne * "30 fuowass
charity which began "rather with young men. Before he entered the Church, and when he was an actor, E Mr. Davidson took an native and organising part in a number of [clubs and settlements, many of thein boys' clubs. After his experience of these, Mr. Davidson came to the conclusion that girls were, more in need of assistance than boys, and the case was ever launched. It was he had spent years of his life en present in the mind of the charitable | deavouring to assist hundreds of Mr. Dashwood (one of the solicitors
girls. fur the Bishop) long before the charges were drawn up, and when
Mr. Levy and that the atmos phore" of guilt was present before
the evidenice collected by the detec tives was being considered."
"Hand That Fed Bitten." "If my friend wants evidences," continued Mr. Levy, "I can give him the names ac addresses of The ease was conceived in ob
of women-prostitutes in hundreds launched scinate ignorance,
would-be prostitutes-with venom and spite, and carried on to and the very end in spite and in per- whom Mr. Davidson has had naso- ciation and into whose lives he has seention.
tried to introduce a little mollow- ing influence, a little family in- nence, a istle influence different from that of the street. He had endeavoured to impart to these girls
Kissing Habit,
The Court had been invited to aime that the object Mr. David- son had of speaking to, girls was one and one only. That was not Mr. Davidson's character at all He undoubtedly was a very unusual person. He was a very unconven
There urt BOMO tional person. who would, not without reason, call But him eccentric, or even worse. he was not an immoral person, and most certainly, and definitely. and emphatically, he was not an adulterer. He liked his fellow creatures and expected, probably wrongly in many cases, that they would return that feeling.
"It is not unusual for him to kiss women.
His kisses have been paraded before you as signs of guilt, but you will hear from many he is quite accustomed to kiss women. It is a stupid thing to do, and may lead to all sorts of suspicion on the port of evil- minded people.
You will find he kisses his landlady, his lindlady's daughters, his maida, not in a sensual or or sexual way; it is a kiss on the cheek ar forehead. It is a usual gesture for him, when leaving somever he likes, or if they have done something to help him. If a woman is unhappy lio will kiss her in an attempt to console her. I he is saying good-bye to anyone he knows well, he will kiss her good-bye.
"He kissed Barbara Harris, in a restaurant when he was leaving her, and my friend asks you to nasume it was a sign of immoral intent. He does a lot more out- rageous things than that. There are a great many things he will have to explain to you which might give wrong impressions to the sus picious mind, because he is so utter- ly and completely unconventional and thoughtless as to the appear- ance of anything he does."!
- A large number of the facts of Mr. Davidson's association oven with Barbara Harris were not in disputo. It was only those fow statements which she pretended that she alone could tell that were. disputed.::Alot of the facts in respect of Rose Ellis were not in dispute, for a very simple reason.
suggestion of well-respect and to vive them a career which would put them beyond the reach of the scum which batten upon girls of this sort. Barbara Harris is one only of legions, Lut she is one who has
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