1935-06-24 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG 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 John Raphael Russell (28), the son of Mr. Hamer Russell, M.P., for the Brightside Division of Sheffield, the Court of Criminal Appeal In London immediately delivered: Judgment.

In announcing that the appeal had falled, Lord Hewart, said the jury were entitled to say that the facts were consistent with the desire of the appellant that Miss Lendbeater should drown,

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

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Itüssell and Miss Lendbeater had been friends for five years, and secretly engaged for two, years, and the allegation was that they had also been on intimate terms.

The prosecution naserted that on the evening of July 80 last they motored together to Walkerlth, Lincs., 37 miles from Shefeld. There, after a "silly 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 trini Miss Leadbeater stated that xho was sure that Russell did not Intend to murder her. while Russell himself awore that The Jumped into the water with a re- mark about "ending it all now."

Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., con- cluded a seven hours' speech to the Court On Russell's behalf.

When the Court sat the next day, Lord Hewart said to Mr. Arthur Morley, K.C., 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 Hewort 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 his right hand, while Mrs. Russell sat bolt upright, with pale and anxious Luce.

EFFORTS TO SHIELD ACCUSED

Lord Hewart anid Russell pleads. ed guilty to sing an instrument on Miss Leadbeater to procure & 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 pasted on him for attempted murder. The appeal was only against the conviction for attempted murder,

Lord Howart said Miss Lead- benter was in the witness-box anxious, as must have been ap parent to the jury, to shield ad cused, the man who had been her lover. There she qualified, denied, aubtracted from her evidence. but it was obvious that when she spoke on January 5 she told 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 sonic reason, Miss Leadbeater voured to introduce.

LATER DENIAL

enden-

"It is true that Inter she denied

it," Lord Hewart continued. "It

is like the kind of case about which one often hears, where the wife has beon badly hurt by the husband, but, in the pinch of the charge at the trial, says she did not believe he intended to harm

her."

The jury, he said, were entitled to arrive at the conclusion that, despite the girl's repented efforts to shield Russell, the truth had

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LESSONS FOR FORGERS

WHAT EXPERTS LOOK FOR

By ROBERT SAUDEK

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Ever looked at your writing through a lens?

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

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

DUCHESS OF YORK

CANCELS ALL, SUMMER ENGAGEMENTS

London, June 22.

Call-

made by the nib at the instant and the question for the expert is

The Royal Residence announces: when it first touches the paper it whether enough of these eas he "The Duchess of York has is possible to deduce what sort of shown to remain to make it a culled forthcoming engagements, 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 sus-ther functions this sunmer," broken off by the commencement of the visible writing.

This movement is called “initinl.

adjustment" and is highly charac teristic. So is the "final · adjust- ment," which occurs when the nib is removed from the puper.

peeted man.

Although it has not been de- finitely announced, it is generally The expert has to demonstrate understood that Her Royal High- and link together microscopic coin-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 cide so much from handwriting the obvious characteristics will be probability do not admit they are Elizabeth and the Princess Mar- that it played a prominent part in a missing, and the fact that they are the result of chance. successful Court of Appeal case recently.

The unskilled observer called on to compare two signatures when there is looks naturally for obvious simi

a suspicion of forgery

larities. These the expert dis regards. Clearly the more obvious a peculiarity is, the easier it is to| imitate.

The expert looks for the loss |

leaked out, notwithstanding the in-obvious characteristics. He will

up the truth by a false story.

tention of both of them to cover be impressed only by the absence

ed hand. or presence of these in the suspect-i

the

What, then, are these "inconspi- cuous features" on which the ex- port relies for proof?

On the whole of the facts the jury were entitled to any that ther were only consistent with desire of Russell that Miss Lead- beater should drown.

Concluding, Lord Hewart anid the Court did not accept the sub alght it seems that one dot must mission that the case should have been withdrawn from the jury, and every like another, but this is

Well, think for a moment about the dotting of an "i" At first

that there was no evidence other with which the dot is made is not so. The little muscular jerk than tho, reluctant testimony of Miss Leadbeater which they could different with each one of us. accept.

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

Some people make it with a tiny, circular movement; others in the form of a definite hook. A lens Boon 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 Axedly in front of him, while

Mrs. Russell quietly shod tears.

Afer a minute or so they left the

EASY TO IMITATE

Then there is the way in which

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

in her husband's. Outaide they and connectod. Consider for had a conversation with Mr. example "l" and "a," "m" and "n." Birkett.

These are easy letters to imitatë

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