CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2] — Page 87

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"Instead of proceeding in the launch he returned to Government House. He then found Mr. Hayllar in Lady Hennessey's boudoir. As his Excellency entered the room he observed Mr. Hayllar apparently endeavouring to conceal something. The Governor asked Mr. Hayllar what it was. Mr. Hayllar replied, 'Sir, it is a catalogue.' The Governor asked him to show it. He opened the book and saw it was an illustrated catalogue of pictures and statues. Mr. Hayllar said, 'It is a catalogue of the Museum at Naples containing prints of a most indecent description.' The Governor thereupon ordered him to take the book and himself out of Government House immediately, or he would direct his servants to turn him out."

The said Francis Buckley Johnson thereupon said to the defendant, "Was Lady Hennessey in the room?" The Defendant replied, "I do not know. You must excuse me from saying that part of the question." The said Francis further said to the Defendant, "You must be mistaken; the book could only have been the ordinary catalogue of pictures and statues of the Museum, and the Governor must have jumped to an erroneous conclusion." The defendant in reply said, "No, there is no mistake about it. If it was not the ordinary catalogue, it was the catalogue of the 'Musée Secret'."

"The first print in the book was that of a man and a woman in a most indecent attitude." The Defendant by his said words and statements to the said Francis Buckley Johnson meant and imputed to the Plaintiff that the Plaintiff had brought into the residence of the said Sir John Pope Hennessey and into the private sitting room of Lady Hennessey his wife an illustrated catalogue of a portion of the Museum at Naples not open to the public because of the gross indecency of its contents, which catalogue contained pictures of such a gross and indecent character that they were not fit to be shown to women; and that he had the said illustrated catalogue for the purpose of exhibiting the same to the said Lady Hennessey with intent thereby to debauch the mind of the said Lady Hennessey.

The defendant published the said letter and published the said words with intent to injure and defame the Plaintiff.

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8 86 's boudoir "Instead of proceeding in the launch he returned to Government House. He then found Mr. Hayllar in Lady Hennessey's boudoir. As his Excellency entered the room he observed Mr. Hayllar apparently endeavouring to conceal something. The Governor asked Mr. Hayllar what it was. Mr. Hayllar replied, 'Sir, it is a catalogue.' The Governor asked him to show it. He opened the book and saw it was an illustrated catalogue of pictures and statues. Mr. Hayllar said, 'It is a catalogue of the Museum at Naples containing prints of a most indecent description.' The Governor thereupon ordered him to take the book and himself out of Government House immediately, or he would direct his servants to turn him out." The said Francis Buckley Johnson thereupon said to the defendant, "Was Lady Hennessey in the room?" The Defendant replied, "I do not know. You must excuse me from saying that part of the question." The said Francis further said to the Defendant, "You must be mistaken; the book could only have been the ordinary catalogue of pictures and statues of the Museum, and the Governor must have jumped to an erroneous conclusion." The defendant in reply said, "No, there is no mistake about it. If it was not the ordinary catalogue, it was the catalogue of the 'Musée Secret'." "The first print in the book was that of a man and a woman in a most indecent attitude." The Defendant by his said words and statements to the said Francis Buckley Johnson meant and imputed to the Plaintiff that the Plaintiff had brought into the residence of the said Sir John Pope Hennessey and into the private sitting room of Lady Hennessey his wife an illustrated catalogue of a portion of the Museum at Naples not open to the public because of the gross indecency of its contents, which catalogue contained pictures of such a gross and indecent character that they were not fit to be shown to women; and that he had the said illustrated catalogue for the purpose of exhibiting the same to the said Lady Hennessey with intent thereby to debauch the mind of the said Lady Hennessey. The defendant published the said letter and published the said words with intent to injure and defame the Plaintiff.
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