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Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney went 4 into the witness-box at the Old Bailey to give her version of the incidents at her fat in a Knights- bridge mews early on May 31,

WHHIAM when Thomas

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TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1932.

she had made a will leaving every- thing she posseaned to him.

On the night of the tragedy, she stated, he spoke of leaving her, and she said that if he did she| would commit suicide. In order that she should not shoot herself, ho took her revolver out of the

room.

She followed, and there was a struggle for possessión

of the weapon.

Sir Patrick Hastings here asked Mrs. Barney to tell in her own way as much as she could remember of What followed.

"I Did Not Shoot Him."

Mrs. Barney gave her answer; ("Michael") Stephen was shot slowly, and with several long

| pauses between words.

dend.

She was later found not guilty of murdering Stephen.

Her evidence and a searching cross-examination by Sir Percival Clarke, leading counsel for the Crown, lasted 100 minutes.

"We struggled for the revolver," i she said. "He had it. I wanted it back. I kept saying. Give it to me. I do not know whether he said No, but we struggled. It beenme more and more wild. I do not know how the revolver was, in

The earlier witnesses-Sir Ber-What position. I was so unhappy, I was crying. We were fighting. Bard Spilsbury, gun experts, police officers and the prison doctor-did Suddenly heard a hot." nol take up as much time as had been expected, and when it became

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Have you ever had in your life desire to shoot Michael

Stephen 7--Never. the

soon be in the witness-box Court, already full, become uncom fortably crowded.

The seats reserved for counsel were so crowded that barristers the floor. The actually sat on number of people who gathered in the gangways made it almost im-' possible to get in or out of the

Court,

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There was a hush as Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., leading counsel for the defence, quietly called "Mrs. Barney."

She rose from her seat in the dock and, with a wardress on either side of her, walked to the witness-box. She was pale and trembling and appeared to be

oblivious of the scores of faces

turned in her direction.

Has there ever bech anyone in your mind of whom you were: fonder than of Michael Stephen? --No, never.

Did you shont him that night?

in cross-examination she said that to a certain extent the dis-1 agreement between her and Ste- phen was over the other woman. He was fond of her.

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that?" asked Sir Percival Clarke you may not at the moment ap- "No," said Mrs,preciate, and the consequences of with emphasis. Barney in a whisper.

which brings sorrow afterwards." struggle, he "Don't you think so?" persisteil! Speaking of the Sir Percival. Again Mrs. Barney suggested that common sense and reason would tell them that even answered "No.".

Sir Percival When, he said he if Mrs. Barney had wol got the re- was going to leave you, did you volver when the struggle started, think he was going to leave you she had got it when the shot was for this other woman--No, 1 tid fired.

Her voice was little more than anot think that. whisper as she took the outh and i

Who did you think was going to

Sir Patrick asked her to raise ber keep him thought he would voice while giving evidence,

probably try to keep himself by gambling. He thought he was very successful at it.

Quietly she told how she be came acquainted with Stephen and

You, I suppose, were very un- frankly admitted that she became his mistress and that she provided Sinus that he should not leave you him with money out of her private for her?-Well. I did not think he income. She was devoted to him, was going to leave me for her. though they had frequent quarrels. In his final speech to the jury

If she could have obtained a divorce from her American lus land, she grid, she would have married Stephen.

There was another woman, and she alleged that Stephen had goue with this woman playing bridge and gambling. She and Stephen had frequent quarrels, but they were over money and not over the

other woman.

In order to show that she was devoted to Stephen, she said that

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"It has now been sought to say that the subject of the quarrel was his gambling with Mrs. Barney's money," he said.

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