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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

APRIL 10, 1937:

LEO HARRIS. FALSE BETRAYER AND LIAR'

Scorned By K.C. As Biggest Scoundrel Country Has Known

SIR PATRICK HASTINGS, K.C., denounced Leopold Harris as the "most unadulterated scoundrel that this country has ever known" when he spoke for the administrators of the Willie Clarkson estate in the High Court recently.

told him he had burned down these premises.

"I KNOW A CRIMINAL"

"It is far worse than that. Leo- pold Harris says: 1 know a crimi- hal called Moss Leon,' a man whom nobody could put into the box be cause nobody could believe him, and 1 am going to any that Mosa Leon told me that he had burned down the pre- mises.

"Upon that evidence of Leopold Harris you are naited to convict the

memory of Clarkson for all time is Leopold Harris.

a man who was us big a scoundrel as

"No Juryman would, send a man. Harris to prison on the word of without some corroboration,

"It is a great responsibility appear- ing for a dead man and having to face Harris, brought for the fourth, who is dend and, if he were alive, he the risk of cross-examining a matt ume from Maidstone Prison to the would be sitting in front of me and, like Harris, who has sald that a few court, where he had been a witness before you could give a verdiet for days after he had gone to prison he who as C- for insurance companies who are the insurance company, his lordship sent for tlie solleitor,

of in- suing the administrators of the would tell you that you would have presentative of the dozens Clarkson estate, did not hear Sir to find a verdict which, In effect, surance companies, had hounded him Patrick acorn him.

would be equal to saying that Clark-out and sent him away for fourteen son ought to be where Leopold Harris From that day to this, he said,

He was in charge of warders in "Is now. court consulting room.

Sir Patrick said of Xarria: "He has pleaded guilty to. and has been Bent to fourteen years' penal ser- vitude for the most dreadful. serien of cold-blooded villainies you can well imagine.

"When I see a man like him stand- ing up there and taking the oath to tell the truth, one almost wonders whether it is permissible that such a man should be allowed to go through the humbug of taking the path.

"He is a man who has burned down houses with people in them apparently boasting of 11. He seems to have been doing it lt lls life."

"You would have to convict him of the most dreadful crime that a man can commlt, and I don't think that. at the moment, you have any den what the awful nature of that crime is,

"I shall be able to estable were pletely to your satisfaction who were in the house (Clarkson's), as regular habitues, at the time of the fire 1031).

•

WOMAN SLEPT THERE

"There is a woman who looked after Clarkson for a long time. She! tooted after his flat, his food, and Clarkson himself. She was there ail day and all night.

"She was sleeping on the premises Sir Patrick called Harris "a sanetint the time of the fire. monious humbug...a false betrayer

of his friends...a liar."

! £25,000 CLAIM

he had been in communication with Mr. Crocker and the insurance com- ponies--not because he hoped to get any benefit out of it; not because he thought that if he could get on good terms with the insurance companies some one would get something out of It and some of his fourteen years might slip away--but because, he sald, he wanted to put right the wrong he had done.

"I nk you to say that a man who talks like this is not only a scoundrel but a sacrimonious humbug."

"SEEKING A GOOD TURN"

Sir Patrick suggested that the truth of Harris's evidence was that he sent for the underwriters to see if they could do him a good turn.

Sir Patrick went on to say that he wanted to tell the jury what he could about the connection between the

"The allegation made ngalast ou Clarkson is-since he left her in the man named Ryness (Emmanuel Ry- building--that he deliberately low-ness. Harris alleged that he had been told that Byness und a man The K.C. was addressing the courted this house to be burned, knowing named Moss Leon had fired the on behalf of Mr. Norman Stanley not only that he was committing the Clarkson premises) and Mr. Clarkson. minor offence of robbing the people "I am in a position, fortunately," Clare and Mr. Henry Clark, admints who had insured him but also that declared Sir Patrick, "to be able to trators of the estate of Willie Clark-he was putting this woman in peril prove that Clarkson was at Hastings son, famous wig-maker,

of her life.

for the week-end during the time of "The evidence against him mainly the fire. the estate administrators are being in fact, solely is that of Leopold "Now Byness was a man he knew. sued by the London Assurance, Bri-Harris. You cannot imagine the The extent of his friendship--if it' tish Equitable Assurance Company difficulty we feel when we have to was friendship cannot help you other insurance companies, and cross-examine a man like that.

about, but I can prove that he had purchased £7,5

7,566 worth of stock large group of Lloyd's underwriters,

from Ryness, with whom he had had considerable business transactions.

Clarkson died In October 1934, and

The companies claim the return

"There he stood, a pitiful figure in

of £25,000 paid to Mr. Clarkson fol-one sense, coming out of prison. lowing a re at his Wardour-street, "You can't be harsh or offensive

W., premises to 1931, and expenses or jur the questiņus you put to ***** Investigating tire at his store ir like that,

Romillies-place in 1933, on the ground, "He is there and he goes off back to prison and, from that moment, he

that both claims were fraudulent.

It is alleged that the Wardour-passes out of this cusp except to the street fire was deliberately caused. extent that we have not to realise

Mr. Clare and Clark deny the allegations and counter-claim £36,- 000), which the insurance companies refused to pay after the 1933 are.

Opening the case for the estate administrators, Sir Patrick Hastings said: "The position in which I find myself is an appealing one,

"I am here representing o

man

what he is,

"In the pleadings is suggested that Rences suddenly disappeared to South Africa at the end of October 1031,

"Actually, at the time of the fire, Ryness was desperately 11, and I shall be able to prove that by calBng the doctor whom Ryness consulted and whom we have been able to tracc.

"On a word alone-there is 'no

"He was so desperately ill that the other evidence of any human being

doctor ordered him to Бо to South It is suggested that Clarkson burn-Africa to save his life. ed down these premises.

"So it is suggested that Clarkson," shall be able to establish that, if he were here, ought to be on trial, he had to go to South Africa, he sold his business, lock, stock, and

But he is not here.

"I have not only to deal with the barrel, and gave it up."

The hearing was adjourned. ense of Harris saying that Clarkson

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