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AYR TRAGEDY AND VERDICT.

WOMAN ACQUITTED OF HOMICIDE.

DAUGHTER'S STORY.

Following dramatic evidence at the High Court at Ayr in mail week, Mrs. Ludgate, who was charged with culpable homicide, was declared not guilty.

The jury was away only eight minutes, and the verdict, when announced, was greeted with plause.

TUESDAY,

O'DARE DEFIES THE REGISTRAR.

"ATTEMPTS TO DEFEAT

ENDS OF JUSTICE."

In the London Bankruptcy Court in mail week the Registrar adjourned indefinitely the public examination of Josephire O'Dare.

She said a solicitor at Birming- ham had told her to take this ap-course, but she would not disclose

her adviser's name.

"Great publie interest was taken in the trial.

an

AUGUST 30,

1927.

HORATIO BOTTOMLEY

RELEASED.

CAREER OF A REMARKABLE PERSONALITY.

SENTENCE ENDED.

London, July 29::

Horatio Bottomley was released

.

O'Dare, who appeared in the cus- tody of wardresses, again refused to divulge the name of the person to-day on the expiry of his sen- from whom she said she had recely-tence. ed an allowance.

Horatio Bottomley was editor and proprietor of John Bull which achieved the zenith of its popu larity during the war. In its own vigorous fashion Jonh Bulld the nation and although its pre- much to foster the patriotism of dictions as to the end of the war were, like many othera. ridiculous- ly inaccurate it supported the ordinary "Tommy" with spirit and success. Perhaps one of the most audacious headlines in the history of journalism appeared in Mr. The examination has stood ad- Bottomley's paper "To Hell with journed, O'Dare having refused Serbia" and his "God's Stock- A special defence was lodged at on the last occasion to give cer-taking was a fine popular war the pleading diet to the effect that, tain information pending there article. His perfod of imprison- being in a state of bodily fear ault of her appeal agalest the senment was the result of his con- and apprehensive of danger totence of four and a half years' viction on a charge of manipulat- herself and her children, the act imprisonment in the criminal, pro-ing certain stocks, and the greater done by her was done in defence

The charge bore that on May 6, In the house at 28 Content Avenue, Ayr, she discharged a pistol loaded with ball cartridges at her hus- band and did shoot him, whereby he was so severely wounded that he died in Ayr County Hospital on May 7, and dil kill him.

of herself and her children.,

the case.

The Registrar said it was attempt to defeat the ends of justice, and means won'd be found of dealing with the solicitor.

Josephine O'Dare failed in May, 1926, and in her account claimed to have a surplus of 27,430 in as- sets over liabilities.

ceedings.

dismissed.

portion of his sentence has been served at Maidstone. He was M.P. for South Hackney at the time of his conviction, and just after the Armistice had attained a certain reputation in the House of Commons, so much so that in his own circle he was mentioned

Mr. J. M. Hunter, advocate- Asked Not To Give Name. depute, appeared for the Crown,

Replying to the Oficial Receiver, and Mr. Craigie Aitchison, K.Cshe now stated that her applica- defended. There Bre over 30 witnesses and 21 productions in tion for leave to appeal had been She still declined to give the Major Ludgate's D.S.O.. name of the person who had made a possible Prime Minister. He was a financier of skill and enter. Accompanied by her agent, Mr. solicitor had told her not to give the Times and afterwards owned the

her an allowance, saying that at

prise. He founded the Financial Jas. Hillhouse, solicitor, Mrs. Lpd-information, because it had ro gate entered the side door prior thing to do with her "reditors.

Sun newspaper. In the famous to the Judge taking his seat. She

case of Regina v. Bottomley and The Registrar said it was not others he was the principal defen-. nad been out 'en bäil of £20 fər

for the solicitor to take up that der. This case, together with the some weeks. Mrs. Ludgate was attired in black, without the veit stand, and he ordered O'Dare to Rex. v. Bottomley and Others suit, answer the question, remarking that he won, and was generally looked which she had previously worn.. he would have the solicitor before upon as the best lay lawyer in Dramatic evidence was given by him in court and deal, with him. the country. An outspoken and Rosamund Una Ludgate, eldest

O'Dare said it was not the soli- fearless critic he invented the daughter of the accused, a young citor who undertook her defence, "Business Government" idea. Up to woman of 19, who was attired in but a Birmingham solicitor who the time of his conviction some si 4 white serge two piece suit and had told her not to give the in-years ago he was a keen sports- who gave her evidence in a low,

formation.

man and the owner of several cultured voice.

race-horses.

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He had also told her not to divulge his name.

Her father, Major Ludgate, she stated, won the D.S.O. in France.

The Official Receiver said that' and was thrice mentioned in dis-

as O'Dare refused to give the patches. Her father had been information he woul not take drinking heavily, and on the after-up the time of the Court, but noon of the tragedy staggered would ask for the examination to home very drunk. He did not go be adjourned sine die.

WOMEN ACTING AT TABLE.

out again that night, but con- The Registrar (to O'Dare): GUESTS WHO ATE NOTHING. tinued drinking. He quarrelled you are not prepared to give the with her brother, Desmond and

put him out after assaulting bin name of the solicitor?-No,

"It is an attempt to defeat the by hitting him on the head. Wit-ends of justice, and we will find ness told Desmond to go and stay

means to deal with him," said the the night with his grandmother.

Registrar. At present your ex- His Lordship-Why did you ask amination is adjourned sine die, your brother to remain there.

When you come out of prison you' Witness Because my father can apply to have it reinstated in was always violent towards the list.

Desmond.

The Pistol.

With a curt "Remove her", to the wardresses, O'Dare left the court.

Witness stated that her mother had an automatic pistol and her point it at the south wall of the father had one which he kept in sittingroom. The pistol just the bedroom. The magazine of made a click and she heard b her mother's pistol was at the

mother sayMy God, I won't grandmother's in Ayr, and there

work." were cartridges in it. On the morning of the tragedy there were no cartridges for the automatic pistol at Content Avenne.

A day or two before the tragedy her mother asked her if she thought she could get the "maga- zine with the cartridges.

Witness replied that If she thought they would be a protec- tion she could get them. The next she heard about the cart ridges was that Felix handed them to her in the evening about G.30. So far as she remembered, there were five cartridges in the maga-

zine.

Witness put the magazine with the cartridges in her suit case just outside the door of her bedrooni. She did not know where the pistol was at that time. She just said

Heard a Shot.

women

Two beautiful young went into a London restaurant last month as the luncheon guests of a Peer who was giving a birth- day party.

"When it was over," writes a correspondent who was one of the guests, "they made the appropriate remarks to our host, and thanked him. But had he noticed that from the beginning of luncheon until the end these young women had not eaten a morsel? Perhaps, two mouthfuls, not more.

This is what happened:

"In the foyer before luncheon- it was at the Savoy-our host had provided cocktails and sherry. Each young woman accepted a cocktail and offered a smiling Her father was swearing the toast. Then deceived no doubt by whole time in a room. She heard the artless way in which they her mother rush out, and then had concealed their still full she heard a shot.

glasses behind their bags and Witness ran back into the

gloves, our host never noticed room box

and stood

there

that they drank no more. for about a second. Her to move, father did not seem

downstairs. She and she ran understood that later a bullet was found in her father's buttock."

Answering the Judge, she said she went to the boxroom because

"Luncheon itself was a superb piece of stagecraft, just as on the stage actors and actresses appear to eat quite substantial meals.

Nimble Conversation. she was apprehensive that her "They seemed to linger over the cantaloupe but only the slimmest father would shoot her.

Examined, Miss Ludgate said water of it disappeared. Cold consomme and Jobater were she remembered that her father suffered from delirium tremena brought, and disappeared. One twice in India, and it was follow-said lobster was her favourite dish to her mother that her brother hading a second attack that her mo-but she ate none. Neither ate ther was sent home by the Army any quail, though only the closet hrought the magazine, -

doctors.

observer would have noticed, From an Ayr merchants' ac- clever was their simulation count it appeared that accused's eating and so nimble their con- bill for whisky and other liquor versation.

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Prelude to the Tragedy. Coming down to the period in mediately preceding the tragedy for two months amounted to over "As for the sweet-and this was witness told how she was sitting £57. In addition to the liquor their master-stroke-they openly in the sittingroom with her father. which he got from this firm, he left it untouched with the confes- The table wes between them. obtained it at public houses and sion that their beauty doctors had She got up to go out of the room, brought it in.

water.

and her father caught hold of her Describing her father's conduct banned it. And, as with their and made an improper suggestion at times, witness said he would cocktail, they just sipped their to her. She wrenched herself atand in front of the mirror and hock and drank half a glass of ice free, and ran out of the room to make terrible grimaces. Apart

"I wonder if this is often to be the kitchen. After that her fa- from the improper overtures which ther asked her in the kitchen to go her father made to her that night. found among our women to-day- out for a walk.

he was very violent towards her young women who cheerfully ac-. He went on like that the whole and her mother: When her fathercept luncheon and perhaps dinner time, declared witness, and hit rushed through to his room, where engagements and chat vivaciously her across the face. She picked he kept the rev lver, he was shout- throughout each course and deli- up a walking stick to defend hering: "By God, I will get you cious dish which

touch."

now."

they never

self, and he wrenched it from her, and her mother struck him across

Famous London restauranteurs It was following upon this that

confessed that they were all the face, with a small brush. her mother ruched upstairs.

Her father was in a terrible Witness I do not know who familiar with these beautiful temper, and said he would murder inserted the magazine in the automata of the luncheon table. them all. She rushed past him | pistol.. upstairs, and she heard him lurch Her mother was in a great state. against the sofa in his room of alarm, and her father was still She thought he was reaching for shouting for witness. Her fa- the revolver which he kept there.ther went into the bedroom where Witness rushed upstairs into a little Sylvia was sleeping. She boxroom. She heard her mother heard Sylvia aeroam twice and it run past her into other roo was immediately after that that Witness thought she would be witness heard the shot. going for the cartridges.

Witness said that after the All this time her father. was shooting her mother exclaimed shouting at the top of his voice."My God, Tve shot my husband. She saw her mother with the re- I had to do it. My daughter was volver in her hand. She saw her 'in danger. He was a madman.”

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