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LIBEL ACTION BY EX- POLICE CHIEFS.
BIR WILLIAM HORWOOD ON HYDE PARK.
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929,
LIBEL BY SOLICITOR..
LL. 1028
JURY AWARD WOMAN PLAINTIFF 450 DAMAGES
The hearing was concluded by Mr. Justicë | McCardle and a London, Apr. 18.
special jury in the King's Bench Hyde Park by night was 'dis- Division recently of the action for cussed by Sir Wiliam Horwood, damages for alleged libel by Mrs. the former Police Commissioner, Roma Josophine Wardrop, of Hun in the King's Bauch Division yea-ter
Brunswick-aquare, terday,
W.C. against Mesara. Anstey and Both he and Sir Wyndham Childs, Co., solicitors, of Panton House
ex-Assistnat-Commissioner, Haymarket, S. W.
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House,
gave evidence in their libal action- Last year Mrs. Wardrop, who against the Stateman Publishing was then Miss Cavallo, visited a Company, Ltd. They complain of clinic in Paris to see Mrs. Cecilia an article in the New Statesmas Mortimer, with whom she was on concerning Lord Lee of Fareham's terms of friendship. Mr. Robert speech at the opening of the Royal william Emmet, a London solicitor Commission on Police Powers. wont with her.
Parts of the article read:-
Mortimer.
Later Mr. Emmet received a let- If Lord Lee is not prepared to go ter containing the alleged libel into the question of the super from Messrs. Ansley and Co., who vision of Hyde Park, with all the blackmail and sensation which it contended that they acted for Mra. Involves, he will find it quite im- possible to restore the confidence of the public in the police. More over, the whose substance of his opening speech suggested a very strong faith whitewash.
In the virtues
of
Mr. Justice McCardie ruled that the secasion on which the letter containing the alleged bol was written was privileged.
to
Summing up, his Lordship told the jury that in view of his rul If the inquiry is really to be caring what they had seriously ried on on these lines, we can only consider was whether the, pass- say that it seems to us a great ages in question were written waste of publie money. Such an maliciously. It had been made. Inquiry might be of great value clear that when Mrs. Wardrop if it put an end to the Horwod- went to Paris she found that the wero bo- Childs-Bodkin methods an end, "vultures of Suciety" that is to say, to the Hydo Park ginning to gather round Mira. Mor- scandals, to the creation of crime timer as she lay on her sick bed, where here is no crime, and to the and naturally she would feel very attempted enforcement by the much upset if she were classed police of moral standards which with people of that sor have nothing whatever to do with The jury returned a verdict in the preservation of public order, favour of Mr. Wardrop, and
Mr. Birkett, for the plafuti, awarded her £50 damages. said that the publishing company
Judgment was entered accord- and Mr. Clifford Sharp, the editor, ingly with costs. denied that the words complained of were defamatory, but said that they were fair comment on matter of public interest. The printer admitted that the article was bellons, and had apologized Sir W. Childs in Box,
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Sir Patrick: Would you do it?- Yes.
Sir Patrick: Supposing you wera walking with a lady and sat down on a scat?
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Sir William remarked that to tlie best of his knowledge he had never had a case of blackmail In Hyde Park. He agreed that the Royal Commission suggested that. because of the risk of blackmail, plain-clothes officers should not be given duty in Hyde Park.
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Sir William also agreed that n "Oh," interposed Sir William,duty of the police amounted to Sir Wyndham Childs said that ne “that is a different question."
their being censors of public Assistant Commissioner his Sir Patrick: Then I will vary mornis. duties concerned the_Criminal[my question. Would you agree "An elderly man of the world," Investigation Department and the that it would not be safe for any snld Sir Patrick, "might see Special Branch.
man or woman who value their re-couple making love, and he would He had nothing to do with Ilyde putation to sit down together ou not in the slightest degree be shock- Park. No member of the G.İ.D.¦à scat in Hyde Park? patrolled Hyde Park, although Sir William: I should not do it detectives might visit the park to myself. run down a criminal.
May I take it that your opinion Sir Wyndham laughed at a sug-lia that so long as you keep walking May I take it that the border line gestion by Sir Patrick. Hastings you will be all right? That in 60.1 is left to the police officer who (for the defendants) that he had Sir Patrick: Do you agree that sees the act?--Yes, received a sum which ran into it is not very difficult in the dark Asked if he would put plain- five figures" for writing for a for two rascals to go round to the clothes officers on Hampstead Heath, newspaper after his retirement seats pretending they are police from the police.
officers?
Sir Patrick: But they are your Way. With Blackmailers, own words in an article in John Sir William replied that he had Bull." Let me read them. The not known anyone attempting to article is, hended. "Why 1 joined blackmail people in Hyde Park, the staff of 'John Bull,'" and you although Hyde Park would be as write: "My pen was soon worth good a place as blackmailers could a sum running into five figures choose. if it would only write."
"If anyone attempted to black- "But it did not write," answered mail me, Sir William added, “I
Sir Wyndam, amid laughter. *"1 was offered £10,000 by other newn- Bapers, which I did not accept My salary certainly did not run into five figuren,"
Sir W. Horwood.
Sir William Horwood then gave evidence. He said that
on No- vember 7, 1928, he retired from Commissioner of the
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Metropolitan Police under the age
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CORONAS
clause.
"Do you agree with me," asked) Sir Patrick, "that it is unsafe for
By nam or woman who value. their reputation to walk together) in Hyde Park?"
"No." answered Sir William.
I
ed; while an elderly spinster might be horrified by the same situation."
Sir William: I can quite imagine, that.
Sir William said the Metropolitan Polico did not control the heath, which was under the care of park- keepers of the London County Council.
Sir Patrick: Are you aware that charges of indecent conduct on Hamphitead Heath are practically non existent?
Sir William: I do not know. The hearing was adjourned.
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