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Wife's Action For Libel Fails

Life Of Her Husband's Friend: 'Glamorous, Purple. Affair'

Claiming that she had been libelled ed out that newspapers, in reporting by an article in the "Sunday Express" the Old Balloy proceedings, had re- by Mrs. Louise Tunstall, whose life, ported that Mr. Mayo, in his evidence, counsel said, had been described - as said he was a married man.:- "rather a glamorous, purple affair," In her evidence, Mrs. Mayo said that Mrs. Valérie Constance Mayo, of last October she obtained a decree nisi Hampstead Garden Suburb, NW., was against her husband, alleging adultery plaintiff in an action before Mr. Justice with Mrs. Tunstall. The decreo had Singleton. in the King's Bench Division. not yet been made absolute.

Mfs. Mayo, sued London Express Mr. Beyfus, in his final speech to the Newspaper, Ltd., printers and publish- jury, referred to the article as "this era of the "Sunday Express," alleging worthless trash from this worthless that expressions were used. which woman."

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meant that her (husband, Mr. Harry Mr. G. O. Slade, for the defendants, Mayo, was a bachelor and free to mar-addressing the jury, said: "It lies in ry, and that she, therefore, was not your hands to discourage actions of lawfully married and was the mother this type. So long as Juries continue of illegitimate, children.

to accede to the demands of counsel Defendants admitted publication of like Mr. Beyfus, whose adjectives be the words complained of, but denied came progressively stronger, so long

tory meaning..

Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, K.C., for Mrs. Judge and Mrs. Tunstall Mayo, said she had two daughters, Mr. Justice. Singleton, summing up, aged 5 and 10. She was married on said the innuendo placed upon the Jan. 25, 1928, at the register office, words complained of were that Mrs. Burnt Oak, Edgware. Her husband Mayo had never been lawfully married was a stock jobber earning about £1,000 to her husband, but had always lived a year, and they held a respectable so- cial position.

Husband's Change

The marriage was reasonably happy until the autumn of 1937, when Mr. Mayo became entangled with a woman named Mrs. Tunstall. He became dif- ferent in manner, and eventually left

his wife.

In January and February, 1938, the affairs of Mr. Mayo and Mrs. Tunstall suddenly became notorious, as.. Mr. Tunstall burgled the flat, where his wife and Mr. Mayo were living, and stole some of the property of both. Mr. Tunstall was -prosecuted and convicted at the Central Criminal Court;

The trial was on Feb. 15, and on Feb. 20 the "Sunday Express" publish- ed an article in the form of an. inter- [view with Mrs. Tunstall.”:

"The whole affair was of a somewhat sordid nature, and the career of Mrs. Tunstall, we may take it from her own article, appears also to have been some- what sordid," Mr. Boyfus commented. "Cloak of Romance"

"The sensational Press like to clothe the sordid with the cloak of romance, and the defendants; no doubt; thought| that an article by this woman would be good "copy.'

"So, somewhat reakless of the effecta which the article might have on other people such as. Mrs. Mayo, who was merely a good wife and mother who had not achieved fame as a glamorous woman or a romantic figure by promis- cuous, immoralities, they published the article complained of."

The article contained the following passages of an interview with Mrs. Tunstall:

Mr Mayo said to me, "I have pro- posed to you a million times, Louise, Take this chance. Come and live with me and I will look after you, until was can marry”.

Now I have made unhappiness by saying “"No" in court when they asked me if I intended to marry Mr. Mayo. I do intend to marry him when I am divorced. But I was not going to say so in public.

with him in concubinage, that she was the mother of two illegitimate children- and that she was a woman of unchaste, immoral character:

"Can you read that in this article, or anything like that?” the judge asked.

"Perhaps it is a pity there should be articles of this kind after a trial, but you are not concerned with that. What you are concerned with is to do justice between the parties."

The jury returned a verdict for the defendants.

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Mr. Mayo, as a man of honour, would have felt bound to marry me after that, Mrs. Mayo afterwards found that she was, "cold-shouldered" by her friends and the number of invitations she re---Cemonts $15.90 b. ceived to other people's houses dimin- H. K. Ropes $4 b. ished.

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Mr. Boyfus said he was not suggest- ing that the defendants intended to make any reflection on Mrs. Mayo. When she asked for a withdrawal of the statement affecting her, they dent- ed that she had beer libelled, and point-

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