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A WIDOW'S ALLEGATIONS.

A small, groy-haired woman, dressed in black, conducted her own case in the King's Bonch

Division recently, when she sued Earl Winterton, Under-Secretary for India, for alleged libel.

She was Mrs. Laura Madden, of Brixton, widow of a major" who, when he died in 1916, was Comp- troller of the Palaces of the Má- harajah of Alwar,

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In an emotional voies tinged with weariness, she told her story of her husband's death, declared that he had been murdered by ar- senic, and argued that for poli- tical purposes a false inquest ver- diet had been returned, and that officials had shielded the murder-

er.

Explaining that lack of means compelled her to appear in person, Mrs. Madden said she had asked Colonel, Wedgwood, M.P., to take

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She complained of 11-treatment by the agents of the Maharajah, and onld that her life was in dan- ger, but she was befriended by a young Parsee official, who was brutally ill-treated for giving her

shelter.

Madden read letters, and she burst For nearly two hours Mrs. into tears after reading the fol lowing passage-

My every hour is tatured by the agonising knowledge that a valuable life was wantonly cruelly taken, but the cruelty. was added to by the strenuous offorts to give the poor victim a non-Christian burial in the God- forsaken State of Alwar. The appalling tragedy alone was suff cient to drive any wife insane.

the judge saying that they were Later the jury sent a noto to

convinced that Lord Winterton wrote on a privileged occision and acted in good faith.

"I am sorry I can't stop the case now," observed the judge. When give your verdict if you like."

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Winterton in 1923. It read:--

The facts seem to be that Mrs. Madden's mind' has become slightly unhinged as the result of brooding over the death of her husband....1 understand that it was all carefully gone into in India at the time and that the political authorities satisfied themselves that there was no ground for interference. Rending from her writ, Mra. Madden then stated that her griev

ances were:-

Mrs. Madden then went into the witness-box, where she read more correspondence, and concluded, "No Hun would be guilty of the. cruelty to which I have been sub- jeeted by a pack of swindling con- spirators."

Asked if she had anything more to way, she answered, "It doesn't seon much uno saying anything."

The case was adjourned.

Paris, Jewellery to the value of 100,000 franca was accidentally (1) The upholding of an off- thrown out of a window near Paris in a recent night. A housemaid cially admitted false death cer- ticate at an inquest in Delhi intock a table-cloth, upon which ber 1918, conducted in strict seclu mistress had laid down four ringe, sion, and deplorable for its scan- and shook the "crumbs" out of delous judicial jugglery, result- the window into the street. When ing in;

the loss was discovered a search

(2) The condonation by the was made, but only one ring was highest authorities in India, in-recovered. Ex Tel. Co. cluding Lord Chelmsford and

Lord Reading, of the wilful mur- der of her husband in Alwar State in 1916;

(8) Her irreparable losses and the treatment inflicted upon her in the Alwar State:

"Cowardly Imputation." ·

She had asked Lord Winterton, she said, to approach the. Mahar- rajah of Alwar for payment of his debts, admitted in "official docu- ments as due to her, but Lard Win- terton, she alleged, had not done this, but to shield others, cast on the character of her, murdered hus- band

a "cruel, groundless, and cowardly imputation."

Mrs. Madden then read a long petition to Lord Reading asking for compensation, and alleging that the death of her husband was the result of "one of the most cold-blooded murders in the history of crime." ..

His Lordship: A trial took place before & recognised tribunal in Allahabad in 1912, and there was an acquittal?-Mrs. Madden said this was through a clever defence. Arsenic Allegation,

She complained that it was a trial of woman, for a previous murder. The same woman was the person who was responsible for the death of her husband. Her husband died from all the symp toms of arsenic poisoning,

The Attorney-Gerenal said Mrs." Madden thought that the person who murdered her husband, as she alleged, had been tried for and ac- quitted of the murder of somebody else. Actually, there was no con- nection between the two.

She anid she had asked Lord Rend.. ing that her husband's body should be exhumed, and declared that arsenic would be found in it.

She could, refute the inquest evidence that her husband died from "20 years' hard dricking and an hour in the sun."

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Answering the judge, the Attor- ney-General stated that "Lord Chelmsford, in 1919, and Lord Reading, in 1912, and again in 1922, both went into the matter of Major Madden's death,"

Mentioning that she was clalni- ing £5,000 damages, Mrs. Madden said. "It is little enough, consider- ing all things."

She declared that after her hus- band was assassinated by pol son," all his effects were config- cated by the Alwar State and that she was plunged from afluence into poverty on a semi-starvation pension,

Her husband was amazingly fond of his garden, and when she went there to get a couple of plants for his grave sho wAS AS- Baulted by a common coolle.

The Attorney-General: Major Madden died insolvent.

Mrs. Madden said she knew botter.

"Had it not been "for General Dyer, another victim of injustice, I should have been butchored with the handful of Europeans remain- ing in Delhi," declared Mrs. Mod. "'den.

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