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TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE

24, 1935.

M. P.'S SON FAILS IN APPEAL

COURT OF APPEAL RULING

ATTEMPTED MURDER

Without calling on, counsel for the Crown in the appeal of Jolin Raphael Russell (28), the son of Mr. Hamer Itusselt, M.P., for the Brightside Division of Shefeld, the Court of Criminal Appeal In London immediately delivered. judgment.

in announcing that the appeal and failed, Lord Hewart said the jury were entitled to say that the facts were consistent with the desire of the appellant that Miss Leadbeater should drown.

Russell was convicted at Leeds Assizes, before Mr. Justice Atkin- son, of nitempting to murder Carol Havard Leadbeater, 11 Sheffield to secretary, and was sentenced five years' penal servitude.

Russell and Miss Lendbenter had heen friends for five years, and secretly engaged for two years,

and the allegation was that they had also been on intimate torms.

Tho prosecution asserted that on the evening of July 30 Inst they motored together to Walkerith. Linca, 37 miles from Sheffield. There, after a "ailly quarrel" as she put it, he "ran her down the bank of the River Trent into the water and drove away." She struggled ashore and sought refuge in a nearby house. At the trial Miss Leadbeater stated that she was sure that Russell did not intend to murder her. while Russell himself swore that. мін jumped into the water with a re- mark about "ending it all now,"

Mr. Norman Birkett. K.C., con- cluded seven hours' speech to the Court on Russell's behalf. When the Court sat the next day, Lord Hewart said to Mr. Arthur Morley, KC, for the Crown:-- "Upon full consideration of this case and the arguments presented by Mr. Birkett, we have come to the conclusion that we need not trouble you,"

Lord Hewart then delivered the judgment of the Court.

Russell stood with his hands be- hind him, his father listened with his chin in the palm of hĩa right hand, while Mrs. Russell sut bolt upright, with pals and anxious face.

EFFORTS TO SHIELD ACCUSED

Lord Howart said Russell plead- ed guilty to using an instrument on Miss Leadbeater to procure a miscarriage and to aiding and abotting the commission of that offence. He was sentenced to 21. months' imprisonment in the Second Division, to run concurrent- ly with the term of five years" penal servitude passed on him for attempted murder. The appeal was only against the conviction for attempted murder,

Lord Iowart said Miss Lend- beater was in the witness-box unxious, us must have been ap parent to the jury, to shield ac cused, the man who had been her lover. There she qualified, denied, subtracted from her evidence, but it was obvious that when she spoke On January 5 she fold what she believed to be true and intended to tell, the truth. Therefore it was open to the jury to disengage the truth of the matter from the afterthoughts, which, for sume reason, Miss Leadbeater voured to introduce.

LATER DENIAL.

enden-

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and the forger is almost certain to not there is of no importance, for overlook certain small pointa in i ja almost certain that they were their formation.

deliberately suppressed. But it is Every one has noticed that we do not start writing at the moment practically an impossibility. when our nib touches the paper find, for any man to get rid of nil but have actually begun the neces-his "inconspicunas features" when sary movement à fraction of a sehe tries to alter his handwriting, Į cond before. Now from the mark

The Royal Residence announces: made by the nib at the instant and the question for the expert is when it first touches the paper whether enough of these can be "The Duchess of York has

acelled forthcoming engagements, is possible to deduce what sort of shown to remain to make it preliminary movement was made, mathematical certainty that the and will not undertake any fur- and to note at what stage it was writing is really that of the susther functions this summer." broken off by the comniencement of the visible writing.

This movement is called "initial adjustment" and highly charac-

teristic. Su is the "Anal adjust ment," which occurs when the nib is removed from the paper.

can-

de- Although it has not been pected man.

finitely announced, it is generally The expert has to demonstrate | understood that Her Royal High-

and link together microscopic coln-ness is expecting a child.—United cidences, piling them up one by Press. one until a point is, reached when

The Duke and Duchess of York

It will surprise you, but it would not surprise experts, who can de- In a hand deliberately altered he can safely say that the laws of have two children, the Princess "It is true that later she denied {cide so much from handwriting, the obvious chamcteristics will be probability do not admit they are! Elizabeth and the Princess Mar- it," Lord Hewart continued. "It that it played a prominent part in a missing, and the fact that they are the result of chance.

is like the kind of ense about successful Court of Appeal case į

which one often hears, where the wife has been badly hurt by the husband, but, in the pinch of the charge at the trial, says she did not believe he Intended to hurm her,"

The jury, he said, were entitled to arrive at the conclusion that despite the girl's repeated efforts to shield. Russell, the truth had leaked out, notwithstanding the in

recently.

The unskilled observer called on;

to compare two algnatures when there is a suspicion of forgery looks naturally for obvious simi- larities. These the expert dis regards. Clearly the more obvious!

eculiarity is, the easier it is to imitate.

obvious characteristics. He will The expert looks for the less tention of both of them to cover be impressed only by the absence

up the truth by a false story.

or presence of these in the suspect-

On the whole of the facts tho ed hand.

jury were entitled to say that they

were only consistent with the

What, then, are these "inconspi-

desire of Russell that Miss Lead-cuous features" on which the ex-

beater should drown.

pert relies for proof?

Well, think for a moment about Concluding, Lord Howart said the dotting of an "" At first the Court did not accept the sub- mission that the case should have sight It seems that one dot must been withdrawn from the jury, and he very like another, but this is that there was no evidence other not so. The litle muscular jerk than the reluctant testimony of with which the dot is made is Miss Leadbeater which they could different with each one of us,

.accept.

As Lord Howart announced that the apponi would be dismissed, Russell looked towards his parents, Ho accepted the decision with

Some people make it with a tiny circular movement; others in the form of a definite hook. A lens soon shows up these peculiarities or the lack of them-In the

fortitude, and was at once removed writing the genuineness of which

to the cells. His father sat star is in doubt.

ing fixedly in front of him, while

Mrs. Russell quietly shed tears.

Afer a minuto or so they left the

EASY TO IMITATE

Then there is the way in which

Court, Mrs. Russell with her arm the plainer letter forms are shaped

in her husband'a. Outside they and

# conversation with Mr. | example "l" and "u," "m” and “a.”

had

Birkett.

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These are easy letters to imitate

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