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Duchess Of Kent's Car Drama

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1989

'CARRIED GUN TO PALACE' ALLEGED REMARK

London, June 14.

Ledwedge Vincent Lawlor, forty-five-year-old Australian, accused of having a firearm in his pos- session when the Duchess of Kent was leaving her home in Belgraves-square by car on June 5, was fur- ther charged at Westminster yesterday with a sim- ilar offence at the home of Lord Harewood and the Princess Royal in Green-street on June 4.

Lawlor was committed for trial at the Old Bailey in custody on both charges.

Mr. H. A. K. Morgan, prosecuting, read a statement in which Lawlor was alleged to have said: "I carried.it (a gun) about several days when going to Buckingham Palace and Windsor. I wanted to see the Dukes and Kings.”

Mr. Leslie Marks, defending, said seemed to come from lower down Lawlor wanted it recorded that he the street. had no desire or intention to cause

harm or injury to the Duchess of Kent or the Earl of Harewood, and had no designs on any members of the Royal Family at all.

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across Halkin-street to his bicycle and rode off towards Buckingham

Palace.

They saw a man put something into his jacket pocket with some difficulty, then mount a bicycle and ride away. Mr. Morgan added:

"At 6.15 the following morning "Mr. Kirkwood drove his car to! Mr. Morgan said that Lawlor was the housemaid went into the din-two police officers who

were on an Australian. He arrived in this ing-room at Lord Harewood's Rouse protection duty. They had been country on April 6, and had been and noticed a tear in the blind of Lawlor before the shot was fired working as a welder's assistant on the window. She found a hole in and immediately afterwards, but Waterloo Bridge. He lodged at a the glass halfway up the centre of had not actually seen the shot fired common lodging house in Newing- the window. ton-causeway, S.E..

HEARD REPORT

"IN A PORCH”

"At 8.40 on the following even- On Sunday morning, June 4, said ing, Monday, June 5, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Morgan, Lawlor was hanging Kirkwood were driving along to about in Belgrave-square. A police Belgrave-square. They saw Lawlor constable on protection duty out-sitting on the top step inside the side the home of the Duchess of porch of a house. Kent saw him ride up on a bicycle "He had something which Mr. and put it against the railings of Kirkwood thought, was a piece of 48, Belgrave-square, on the corner wood. He was aiming it at the opposite the house. He waited corner of Belgrave-square, where. about for about twenty minutes, and the Duke of Kent's house is. He fired this, which was, of course, a gun. When he fired it the only thing in his line of fire was the Duchess's motor-car, which was moving off."

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then rode off.

That evening, at about 10.15, Mr. William Campbell, a surveyor's clerk at Scotland-yard, was walking down Norfolk-street with a young woman. They heard a report which

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because the duchess's car was di- rectly in their line of vision.

"Mr.. Kirkwood and the officers followed Lawlor and stopped him. He said, I did not hit any one, did 13 It is quite in order. I have got

a certificate.

GUN EXAMINED

* Mr. Morgan said that at the sta- tion the gun was examined, and there was a spent cartridge in the breech.

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"The certificate he is so proud of has been examined. On the back of it is written 3 Belgrave-square"- and '82, Green-street. "

SINGAPORE

CONFERENCE ENDS

LONDON, TO-DAY. THE CONFERENCE BETWEEN BRITISH AND FRENCH DE- FENCE CHIEFS IN, THE FAR EAST IN THE FINALYSESSION OF WHICH VICE-ADMIRAL SIR RAGNAR COLVIN, OF THE AUS- TRALIAN NAVAL BOARD, WAS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE, CON- CLUDED AT TERDAY.

SINGAPORE YES-

Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Com- mander-in-Chief in China, and Major-General Grassett, G.O.C. Bri- tish troops in China, left at once for Hong Kong.

Vice-Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin is coming on to London.

It is believed that the confer- ence, which undertook a review of defence problems in the Far East as they affect French and British. interests, was very successful and revealed close agreement between the Service, representatives of the two countries on, methods of co- operation between the British and French defence Services in an

British Wireless. emergency.

carry it about with me for fear it was stolen.

"The gun jammed a few days ago and I was trying to undo it last night in Belgrave-square when it

went off."

Dukes and

Mr. Morgan said that Lawlor continued: "I carried it about

when several days

going to Buckingham Palace and Windsor.

"I wanted to Kings. I down on the When told he was going to be certificate charged Lawlor said: “T am not me they were places where they making any statement in writing:| livéd..

the

addresses

of the firearms

some one told

The firearm was sent to me by my Mr. Marks said that Lawlor brother in Australia. I sawed it pleaded not guilty, and reserved his down myself, because I wanted to | defence,

Revenge Motive In Torso Crime

SCHOLES (NEAR LEEDS), JUNE 14.

VITAL INFORMATION IS BEING. WITHHELD BY A THIRD PARTY FROM THE POLICE IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO PIECE · TOGETHER THE MOVEMENTS OF ETHEL WRAITHMELL, 20- YEAR OLD LEEDS ORPHAN DURING THE 24 HOURS BEFORE SHE WAS STRANGLED AND DISMEMBERED.

Homeless and penniless, the girl had been wandering the Hin

a poor quarter of the city, sleeping in outhouses and wal rooms, ji til 8 pm. la Thursday, when the was seen alone walking along Cán Road, Leeds.

A girl of similar appearanc turned away from a the city station towa

REVENGE THEORY To-night "Ir. W. Blacker, assis tant Chief Constable of the West Riding, expressed the view that re-

- wag the most probable mo- tive for the drimo.

is no question... but that :someone- withholding informa- tion,

been

was done

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