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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929.

or Madeline, She took it up to Doris was lying dying in hospital. the bed-room, and there was a When I was staying at Pipping- "violent row.' Plaintiff opened ford Park Hayley Morries pro- the letter, and his wife snatched mised to help me if anything hap it from him, jumped out of bed,pened to Doris, but he never kept and ran out of the room ands word when the girl died♫ I-' downstaira. Witness followed naked Mr. Covell to ask Morriss hor and told her to take back the to help me to bury the girl, and letter, and she did so. Later he didn't. That is what they": Madeline cried out, and witness term blackmail. I was only ask- returned to the bed-room.

ing for my rights-what he had

"I found them fighting," she promised me. went on. Then he beat her."

A verdict for Mr. Hayley Morriss, in his libel actions, was eturned on April 29, by a King's Bench Division jury, who award- ed him £180 damages. Judgment was entered accordingly, with costs. The jury were absent two hours in considering their verdict. Defendants were United News- papers (1918) Ltd., of Salisbury-

What did you do?-I went for square, E.C., owners of the him. (Laughter).

Sundiry News and the Daily Chronicle.

Counsel were: Mr. A. S, Comyne Carr, K.C., Mr. H. S, Sim- mons, and Mr. J. H. C. Goldie, for the plaintiff Mr. John Flowers, K.C., and Mr. H. M. Giveen, for the defendants.

Mr. Carr: I suggest it had Mr. Flowers: With what?-nothing to do with burying your With a dogwhip-a long one. He daughter. When did she die? struck her across the shoulders She was burled on January 22, once.

In reply to a later question Mrs. Stevens snid she had de. stroyed all the letters relating to

the case.

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Husband Not Told. His Lordship: Do you mean to say that your husband married

Addressing the jury for the de- you in complete ignorance of all fence. Mr. Flowers said that plaintiff's name was a household

word for everything that wan diu- gusting. He complained that he had been held up to hatred, odium, ridicule, and contempt, but

his own misdeeds. Nothing said against him, however true, had done him an atom of damage in the eyes of his fellow-men:

"By his evidence and demeun-

these transactions?—Yes.

You never thought it your duty to tell him?-1 wanted to let it all drop.

Mrs. Stevens added that her daughter Madeline and Mr. Mor

1926.

Mr. Carr: That is more than a month after Mr. Morriss went to prison.

Mra Stevena said she did not remember if she told Mr. Covell Le telf the plaintiff that if he did not send some money she would have to go to Inspector Savage. After leaving Pippingford Park sho was living at the house of a Mra.

Pafear.

Mr. Carr: Did you tell her that Mr. Morriss was not going to ruin your daughters for noth- ing may have done.

And that if you could not get

done.

Wage of 21 a Week.

if that were so, it was becau.e of iriss were cohalantly quarrolling it out of him you would get it; and "making it up again. She out of a newspaper?--I may have spoke of an occnsion when Made- line's mouth was bleeding and she had an abrasion on her forehead.

"How much did you get from this paper for the information you gave?" asked his lordship.

Mrs. Stevens said she had it in different sums. She remembered was not £10, £20, and £65. It more than £100 altogether.

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our in the witness-box, the pinin- tiff has shown himself to be # liar, and not only a liar, but malicious and vindictive liar, who does not hesitate to accuse any- body and everybody of gross mis- conduct and gross inisdeeds." He had declared that every one of the girls," for offences against whom ho was convicted, WAŁ a pro-

titute.

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Mr. Flowers: Did you ever blackmail this man?-Not to my knowing.

In reply to his lordship Mrs. Stevens said she did not herself write the articles for the Sunday News. She gave the information to a representative of the paper.

Cross-examined by Mr. Carr,

The real issue in the case was: What had the plaintiff suffered by way of damage? Whatever the defendants had said, he was such a man that he was not entitled to recover a single farthing. "the witness said Stevens was her am not going to Bay that the de- maiden name. and Roberts her fendants can prove all the things married name. She denied that that are suggested in these ar- she had ever gone by the name of tields," went UR Mr. Flowers. Felfcia Robarts, with an address "But I venture to suggest that in Paris. you will not give very much weight as to whether Mr. Morriss was really strutting about in the gurb of virtue," or whether there were orgies at the bathing pool in Pippingford Park."

Concluding, Mr. Flowers gested that the plaintiff hypocrite, a foul brute, and the personification of lust.

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Request for Secrecy. Mrs. Isabella Stevens, mother of Madeline Roberts and Grace Stevens, was the first witness.

Mr. Flowers stated that she lad married again since the events with which they were concerned, and asked that her present nume and address should not be dis- closed,

Mr. Carr: Did you ever write

Bofore these charges at Uck- field how much money had you from Mr. Morriss 7-My wage of £1 a week for working in the house and my fares to and from London..

Are you saying that you were working, there 18 4 servant?- Yes, with Mrs. Keen.

Did Madeline or Gracio givo you £5 qr £10 at a time, which they get from Mr. Morriss on your instructions ?—Never.

Witness said that she did not send her eldest son to threaten Mr. Morriss early in. 1925. If Her son got £30 he never gave any of it to her.

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Is Mudeline really your daugh-- ter?--Yeu.

Mrs. Stevens agreed that when she first went to Pippingford Park | Madeline introduced her to the plaintiff as her aunt. "I was not good enough," she explained. to your daughter Madeline and "She did not want. Mr, Morriss to Mr. Morriss, "If you want Gracie know her mother was a poor per- to give proper evidence you must son working as a servant. Sho make a large settlement in gave me to understand that she money"?-Never.

was house-keeper to Mr. Morries, not his mistress." She denied that she sent Gracie to Pipping- ford Park so that she (witness) would be in position to blackmail the plaintiff.

Mr. Carr pointed to Mr. Covell, for the firm of Messrs. Withers, Benson, und Co., solicitors, and asked if Mr. Covell had not told her that if she did not apologise he would take the letter to the police. '

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"The story you told the news- paper is a pack of lies from be do not remember," was theginning to end?" suggested coun- reply.

"It is not," declared the wit- ness.

His Lordship: You do not get a letter like that every day. Did he say that?

Mrs. Stevens: I cannot I do not remember.

way.

Ilis Lordship: So far as I am concerned, there shall be no con-jury to believe that? realment,

His Lordship: Do you ask the

Mr. Stevens 1 have forgot-

Speaking with emotion, Mrs. ten many things. Stevens said her present husband knew nothing about this Hayley Morriss business."

"All this is four years ago." she added, "and I have never told him:"

His Lordship: She' had better write down her present name and addrean, then,

His Lordship: I do not care what you have forgotten. Do you swear that you do not remember if this 'gentleman said that?

Mra. Stevens: I had a lot of worry at that time. 1 had n doughter died.

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woman, Nd

Judge and Witness.

Mr. Comyns Carr: To all the about your worry,

Lordship: Never mind witnesses who have given ovi-you remember him saying that? dence and whose names have ap-No, I do not remember. peared in the Press it has been a matter of regret.

His Lordship (to the witness): I understand you have told your husband nothing about these pro- ceedings?—No, air,

You married him without tell ing him a thing about it? Yes, sir.

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Mr. Horace Edgar Cheeseman, a freelance journalist, said hot pd Mrs, Stevens £100 for the in- formation she gave him, which ho wrote.

His Lordship: What did the newspaper pay you 7--£150.

Witness said another newspaper was prepared to pay £250 for the article if the period between the conviction and appeal in the case was not mure than six weeks. That arrangement failed because the intervening perfod was long- er than six weeks. The articles were set up in proof form and given, to him for Mrs. Stevens to read and sign.

Summing up, his lordship said. that newspapers and others had no right to pile on the agony by anying what was not true of, a Mr. Carr: Do you remember man after he had been convict writing that if Mr. Morrino did not pay the money you would give of Appeal judgments in the ease, ed. Having referred to the Court information against him to the Hobbs v. C. T. Tinling and Co., police, or cause Gracie to say his lordship, added that it would something different to the police? be a bad day for English justico I have never threatened Hay- if a man of bad character could

ley Morriss. I have nothing against him except what he did to my daughter. I am not stick

Mr. Carr: Is there any reason why I should not show the presenting up for the eldest. It is the name and address' of the witness to my client?

youngest one.

not go into court and say that defendant had exceeded what could fairly he said of him. Be- cause the plaintiff had been bad in the past, was no reason why', Mr. Carr repeated his question, people should say of him after Пin Lordship: No; but he and Mrs. Stevens denied that shohis trial, and when he was down

ever wrote to the effect suggested. and out, what was untrue. Mrs. Stevens told of a letter ar-i Counsel: Did you say you would Solicitors: Mesara, Peray, Bono riving for Mr. Morriss a few days go to Inspector Savage? Now you and Griffith: Mesert Rhrs, after his marriage to her daught-are getting at it. My daughter Roberts and Ca

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