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THE HAYLEY MORRISS. LIBEL" CASE.

VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF,

SIDE-LIGHTS ON FREE-LANCE JOURNALISM.

Before Mr. Justice Horridge and e Special Jury in the King's Bench Division the hearing was cancelled inst month of a cocsolidated libel actions brought by Mr. Hayley Eus tace Morriss, of Pippingford Park, Sussex, against United Newspapers, 1815), Limited, in respect of articles which appeared in the Daily Chennicle and the Sunday Newca,

The defendants denied that the words complained of bore, or were reasonably capable of bearing, the meanings alleged by the plaintiff and, further or alternatively, plead ed that the words were true in sub- stance and in fact.

them." The only threat I ever made to Mrs. Stevens was through my folicitors. She wrote a letter saying that Gracie would give false infer mation if I did not make a large- settlement on her.

Did you never hit Grace Stevens

alapped her, without any force and without hurting her, at her mother's request on one occasion.”

Do I understand you to say now, after your counsel, in opening this case, admitted your guilt, that you were improperly convicted at Lewes 1-Yes.

You realize that if the girls who gave evidence were of known im- Mr. Comyns Carr, K.C., Mr. moral character it would have been Harold Simmons, and Mr. J. H. C. a complete answer to the charges Goldie appeared for the plaintiff; made against you -Yes, Mr. John Flowers, K.C. Mr. H. M. "Did you instruct your solicitor Given, and Mr. W. Lawson Camp and counsel that those girls were bell for the defendants.

of known immoral character ?-Yes, Mr. Flowers, resuming his cross-and I can produce records to show examination of the plaintiff, quoted | it. from the evidence given at the plain His Lordship: About all of them tiff's trial at Lewis by girl named-Yes, all five. Marjorie, who entered Mr. Morrisa's Mr. Flowers: And yet you say servire at the Crow's Nest, The that your solicitor and counsel sat girl stated that on the second night by and allowed you to be convicted that she was there the plaintiff went of conspiring to procure these girls, ther room and formed his atten- they not being of known immoral tions on her.

character ?—Yes.

The plaintiff said that what hap- pened was with the girl's consent.

Mr. Flowers Do you say that you never hit Madeline Roberts Never, apart from what I said yesterday. spanking. She handed me a boot That was a friendly tree, but gave her a few slaps with my hand in a friendly manner...

Reason for the Marriage.

What were your feelings towards her when you married in October, 10257 Were you fond of her-No; I married her out of compassion for the child she was about to bear.. I believe that she had a miscarriage in prison.

She had not been faithful to you even as your mistress 1-No, she was not faithful. I learned after wards that she had misconducted herself with Dudley Wood.

His Lordship: Was Dudley Wood one of the detectives in this case!

Mr. Hlowers: No, my Lord; he had nothing to do with it.

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It is a fact, is it not, that Mr. Justice Avory said at the trial: "In my opinion there has already been deliberate attempt to deceive the Court, and I am not sure that there conspiracy to defeat the ends of has not been something worse justice "7-Words to that effect.

Mrs. Stevens's Evidence, Mro. Isabella Stevens was called to give evidence, and Mr. Flowers informed his Lordship that the wit, ness had been married again and did not want her name to be re- vealed.

The witness said that her husband knew nothing whatever about the Hayley Morriss business,

His Lordship: You married him without telling him anything about the case ¡—Yes

The witness was told to write down her name and address and the and occupation of her husband, and the paper was handed to counsel.

Why She Loft Pippingford,

The witness said that she knew Miss Lilian Otley, but she denied that sho said to her in the prèscage of the plaintiff at Pippingford Park that if he expected Gracie to give proper evidence he would have to make a settlement. She never said anything about Gracie giving proper | -evidence. -- Mr. Morrias was CZOBS because Gracie did not give the right evidence at Uckfield.

That was why she (the witness) left Pip- pingford Park. She did tot recol- leet saying to Mrs. Keen: "Tell Mr. Morriss that if he does not send me some money I shall have to go

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Mr. Comyns Carr: Did you tell

her that Mr. Morriss was not going to ruin your daughters for nothing. ↑ I may have done.

And that if you could not get it out of him you would get it out of a newspaper 1-I may have done.

Before those charges at Uckäeld. how much money had you had from Mr. Marrias-Mr wages of £1 a week for working in the house and my fares to and from London,

Are you telling the jury that you were working there as. a servant 7- Yes, with Mrs. Keen.

In answer to Mr. Flowers, she to that gentleman or that she said that she was the mother telephoned to Mrs. Keen; Reraind of Madeline Roberts and Grace Mr. Morriss of those big men." Stevens. She first went to the After she left Pippingford Park she Crows Nest at Pippingford Park was living in the house of a Mrs. in September, 1925, and was there Poplar for a few days. She went again in October after the proceedings at the Uskfield Police Court. A day or two after Madeline had married the plaintif on October 28, 1925, she remembered a letter arriving at the Crows Nest, She took it up to the plaintiff's bed-room. Madeline snatched the letter of the plaintiff's hand, and then ran downstairs with it. Madeline returned upstairs again and a dreadful row began. Hearing her daughter cry out, the witness went up and found the couple fighting together in the beds or £10 at a time, which they had Did Madeline and Gracie give room. Marriss struck his wife whia, not the small dog-lead which across the shoulders with a big dog Rot from Morriss on your instruc

tions-Never.. was produced in Court,

In the early part of 1993 did you Corroborative Evidence,

Before she (Mrs. Stevens) left threaten Mr. Morriss and obtain send your eldest Bon down to Mrs. Annie Keen, the wife of that day there was another row on gardner formerly employed by the the landing. Madeline came down-money for you -No. plaintiff at Pippingford Park, said stairs and must have fallen head- Do you know that be obtained that she remembered Grace Stevens foremost, because she (the witness) £30 from Mr. Morrisk for you by being at the Crow's Nest when Mr. and Mrs, Keen picked her up out threats -No; he never gave it to Morriss was ill Madeline Roberts side the kitchen door. The plaintiff me if he did. kept some powders in a capboard in wanted to go to London, and his her bedroom. The witness remem-wife objected, whereupon there was bered an occasion when Madeline another struggle, in the course of returned to the house, and the plain which Mr. Morriss's bag broke tiff asked her where she had been. mirror. Madeline admitted that she had | been with a man at East Grinstead. and added. "If you forgive me, I won't do it again.” The witness said that she had never seen the plaintiff strike Madeline with a dog whip, nor had she ever seen any signs that the girl had been beaten. There were no signs of her ankle ever having been broken.

The plaintiff said that Wood had subsequently stated: "I got Hayley Morriss three years and I will get him another three years when he is | released." He (the plaintiff) had no In cross-examination, the witness suspicion when he married Madeline said that when Madeline Roberts Roberts that he was not the father of admitted the East Grinstead in the child he thought she was about cident, the plaintiff was very angry. to have. It was never suggested to During the time that the (the wit him before he married Madelineness) was at Pippingford Park there that if she were his wife she could were violent cuarrels between the not be called as a witness against plaintiff and Madeline. They were him at bis trial. While. he was in both to blame. prison somebody told him for the first time that there was a sugges tion to that effect. When he may ried Madeline Roberts the only charge hanging over his head was in connection with the girl Amelia, who was under 18. If he had been cruel to Madeline she would not

have married him.

Mr. Flowers: Or or about Novem- |ber 2, 1925, did you get a letter from

a girl named Pat 1-Yes..

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Was there a quarrel between you and your wife about that letter There was.

Mr. Flowers: What did you say to him?-I told him that he was in for some bad luck. (Laughter.)

Was there any other occasion when you saw him strike her 1-Yes, on two or three occasions.

Is Madeline really your daugh- ter --Tea.

ford Park did she introduce you to When you first went to Pipping.

the plaintiff as her aunt 7-Yes. She did not want Mr. Morriss to know that her mother was a poor person working as a gervant.

riss-No; because she would have Did you correct it to Mr. Mor-

lost her situation. She gave me to understand that she was house-

keeper to Mr. Morriss, not his mis-

treas. :

You sent your daughter Gruce to Pippingford Park so that you might be in a position to blackmail Mr. Morriss 1-I did not.

Always Quarrelling. The witness said that the plaintiff and Madeline were always quarrel ling and striking one another. They fell out and then made it up again. On the morning of the day she left they were beating one another and the witness went to the telephone And the story you told the news- to call the police. Madeline's pope is a pack of lies from begin- mouth was bleeding and there was a ning o end -It is not. slight abrasion on her forehead. The witness said that at the be- The witness did not know at that ginning there was no arrangement time about the plaintiff's striking how much she was to have from Grace. After Grace gave her cer- tain information she (Mrs. Stevens)er by appointment at a railway the newspaper. She met the report- had an interview with a newspaper station, and they had tea together. reporter.

His Lordship: How did you come

Mr. Gilbert Frederick Sargent, chauffeur to the plaintiff, said that be lived in rooms over the garage in the courtyard of the derelict mansion, which was about 250 yards from the Crow's Nest. On Novem- ber 25, 1924, he drove Madeline did the newspaper pay you -I had

His Lordship: How much money to meet him -I can't remember. Roberts and her sister Grace from small suma in dribs and drabs. Not people every day, you know!- But you don't get £100 out of

There were so many reporters.

Further questioned by Mr. Comyna Carr, the witness said that she did not know that she, was never seen the plaintiff strike Made- Mr. Flowers: Did you ever black-going to be paid for the story at line, nor had he seen any signs that mail Mr. Morriss -Not to my know- an she or Grace had been ill-treated. ing. I never did.

a house in Hackney to the Crow's

Nest. The plaintiff met them at the more than £100 altogether.

gate, and seemed to be surprised The witness said that she did not and displeased to see Grace, whewrite the statements for the news- had not been there before. He had { paper,

On the Saturday before the plain.

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At the Crown Land Office yester- Mr. Horace Edgar Cheeseman, a day afternoon, Kowloon Inland tiff's trial began at Lewes the wit-ing): You surely know whether you paid Mrs. Stevens £100 for the in- the junction of Boundary Street Mr. Comyns Carr (cross-examin-free-lance journalist, said that he Lot No. 2106, which is situated at. ness did not see Madeline leave the blackmailed the plaintiff He is formation which she gave him. house.

Was she fealous about your hay ing the letter from Put -No it WAR, D put-up job" between Made line and her mother.

Mr. Flowers: When the quarrel

and Maple Street was sold to Mr. took place did you lash your newly- Mr. John Sidney Hudson, bailiff mad enough to say anything.

Hia Lordship: What did the married wife heross the shoulders in the employment of the plaintiff, After you left the Crows Nest and newspaper pay you -£150.

Yeung Wai Chau of 99, Wing Lok with a heavy dog-whip 1-Certainly said that he had acen no violence while the trial was going on at

The witness said that" another Street for 87,300. The upset price on the part of Mr. Morriss, whom Lewes, did you write a letter to Mr.

The land covers" an he regarded as a thoroughly respect- Morriss or your daughter Madeline, for the articles if the period between area of about 3,596 square feet and

newspaper was prepared to pay £250 was 85,394- abis man.

who was then his wife, in which

the conviction and the appeal was has an annual rental of 842, That concluded the ease for the you said: "If you want Gracie to Plaintiff.

give proper evidence you will have not more than six weeks.

rangement failed because the inter- New Kowloon Lot No. 1241 was to make a large settlement of vening period was longer than six sold to Messrs. Chiu Yung Fook, CASE FOR THE DEFENCE.

money "Never.

not.

To you say that the dog-lead pro- duced yesterday was the only one you had in the house ?-On that particular day it was,

The plaintiff added that his chauf- feur had dog-whip, which was sometimes in the house.

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That ar

weeks. The articles published were Ho Wai Chu, Man Chuen and Ho Mr. Flowers, opening the case Did you threaten that if Mr. set up in proof form and given to Lok Tin of 15, Sai Kung. Road,. Mr. Flowers: I am suggesting for the defendants, said that Mr. Morriss did not pay money you him for Mrs. Stevens to read and Kowloon City for 822,300. The that you hit your wife with a heavy Morriss complained that he had would give information against him sign.

upset was 822,100. It is situated dog-whip 1-And I am saying that I been held up to hatred, odium, to the police, or cause Gracie to never hit her at all.

an area of about 11,050 square

ridicule, and contempt, but if that make falëc accusations against him? Counsel addressed the jury on bein Prince Edward Road and has Mr. Flowers: Do you say that were so it was because of his own have never threatened him at half of their client, and his Lord-feet. you never struck her 7-Never, apart misdeeds. Nothing said of him, all.

ship summed up from the slapping to which I have however untrue; had done him an

After deliberating for two hours, Did you ever write or say to Mr. already referred.

atom of damage in the eyes of his Morrissur Madeline that if he did the jury returned a verdict for the The Burglary at Crow's Neat.!!

fellowmen. The real issue was not pay money you or Gracie would plaintiff and awarded him £180 dam- whether the plaintiff had suffered

ed accordingly. any damage, and he (counsel) sub give information to the police -No,ages, judgment for which was epter-

never.

Questioned as to the loaded gun which the plaintiff admitted he kept mitted that he was not entitled to by the side of his bed, Mr. Morrise have even a farthing from the de-Gracie would withdraw information Or that if he did pay money

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A young Filiping giving his name as Iso Corderio was found by Detective Sergeant Humphreys. hidden in a coffin aboard the as. President Jefferson, which recent ly arrived from Manils. The cofin was found in the after part of the vessel. Corderio will be charged· · with stowing away before Mr. T. 9. Whyte Smith at Kowloon Magistracy,

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said: "The police informed me fendants: that it was Mrs. Stevens's don- Continuing, counsel anid that he which she had already given to the federates who had burgled my did not say that the defendants police 1-No. house, and they asked me if they could prove the truth of everything Did you say that you would go to could question her. I did not want that was stated in the articles; but Inspector Savage-Now you are the woman who had become my Mrs. Stevens would be called to say getting at it. My daughter Doris mother-in-law to be implicated in a that she had seen the plaintiff was dying in hospital and while I burglary. The police, said that in striking her daughter Madeline on was staying at Pippingford Park their opinion her confederates were several occasions, not with his hand, Mr. Morriss promised to help me implicated in the burglary, and I but with a whip His story of the if anything happened to her. He Stock of Ottumwa, Ia, Democrat, thought that by keeping n. loaded | "slappings"

insult to did not keep his word when the girl has introduced a"bill into the Con- gun next to my bed and informing human intelligence.

died and I asked his then solicitor greas to give Chinese and Japanese Mrs. Stevens and Madeline about With regard to the girls whom he if Mr. Morriss would help me to an immigration quota of 50 each,

thus placing it they would tell their confederates ought to have protected, Mr. bury the girl. That is what they per year,

Bations on an equal quota basia and scare them too much for them | Morriss had had the audacity to call blackmail.

with European countries. to repeat their visit.” **

turn round and say that they were Did you admit to that solicitor Mr. Flowers: When Mrs. Stevens of known immoral character.

Senator Stock's bill also would He that you had threatened to go and limit the total immigration into finally left your house was there a knew that if they had been he could see Inspector Savage unless Me

1.40 p.m.-Weather report. quarrel between you and your wife? not have been convicted at Lewes Morriss helped you -Yes, I did the United States from all foreign

5.30 to 6.30 p.m.-Programme of when he was tried for procuring threaten that unless Morriss helped countries to 100,000 persons per Was Madeline screaming in your them. By his evidence and demean- me I would go and see, Inspector year.

Chinese music. (Beka zecords sup- room -No.

our he had now proved himself to Savage. I did not want to see the

Introduction of the bill followed plied by The Canton Trading Asso Did she come down with her be q malicious and vindictive liar, girl put into a pauper's grave.

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everybody of grasa misconduct. He Did you-come-downstairs-with-maltacked every one-the-girls-ther buried on January 2020 whip in your hand and, when Mrs. Home Secretary, his counsel and Mr. Comyn Carr That was Stevens interfered, threaten her solicitors, and the Ceart of Criminal after Mr. Morriss had been sent to No; I never threatened either of Appeal.

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