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Villa Murder Charge

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY YANG 18-

1988

WHEN MRS. CASSERLEY VISITED

FLAT: MAID'S

"THEY WENT OUT TOGETHER ABOUT TWICE A WEEK "

With tears streaming down her face, Lydia Scott, an auburn-haired maidservant, told a crowded Wimble- don police court recently of week-ends spent together by Mrs. Casserley and Edward Chaplin.

She was giving evidence at the resumed hearing of the villa murder charge. While she spoke Mrs. Casserley

burst into tears and sobbed.

Kater, Mrs. Casserley, who is to

become a mother, collapsed, and to know him?--About two months.

While Chaplin was working as a bullder's foreman at the house next door to the villa, he used to turich, with Mrs. Casserler;

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Allas Scott said that Mr. Cas- serley had told her she was going to have a baby and that Chaplin was responsible. That was about Christmas.

Mr. Clayton: Did she ever suggest name? Yes. If the baby was a about Miss Scott

girl she would call her Ann.

added

thot

February Mr. Casserley went into

STORY

Percy

The Case-

Arthur Casserley. nged 58, retired managing direc- tor of a distillery Arm, living at u villa in Lindisfarne-root, Wimbledon,

shot was found dend at home on March 23.

Edward Royal Chaplin, 35- years-old builder's foreman, of

Morden, Abbotsbury-road, charged with his murder, and Georgina May Casserley, aged 30, Mr. Casserley's widow, is charged as an accessory after the fact by "harbouring, receiv Ing, and assisting Chaplin with intent to elude the pursuit of Justice."

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at the time, and I think so now, that she did not give me the impression of a woman who was terribly upset.

Mrs. Casserley, who had sat Hafening to Mr. Hackett's evidence with dropping cycs, suddenly fainted and fell into the

of her friend

A glass of water was brought, but Mrs..

Casserley sull lay limply with Ou her companion's

her

shoulder,

Idead

Meanwhile, Mr. Maude continued his questions to Mrs. Hackelt.

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"I was asking," he said, "why two. women helped this woman upstairs. Can you not give

a sensible' that?" answer to

"Well, I am going by her face." SHOCK TO HER

Mr. Maude: Will you please answer the question? You understand it. Why did two women help a third up

About how long after she rst got there. He slept want to the nursing 11 o'clock that night and found the the stairs?-Well. I suppose because.

MrA

about Chaplin?--Yes.

On the Friday she was with Mrs. Casserley and a Miss Perfect at Fara- day-road. After the police had gone Mrs. Casserley spoke to her.

tr. Maude; I am very grateful to you for saying that. When you speak of her condition, what do you refer to?-I knew that she Had not been in very good realth for some yours.

nursing home. While he was there, He said he would go up to the house Chaplin came to the house and slept and try to see Mrs. Casserley.

She returned to Wimbledon about with Mra. Casserley. Mr. Casserley went was carried out of court by two! What did he come for, do you hume for the second time in March, police in the house. She was inter- of her condition and the shock to her. policemen. She returned half an know?-Just to have a cup of tea.

and was brought home by his wife on viewed by the police, and told Mrs. It must have been some sort of shock, And would Mrs. Casserley be the 22nd-the day before his death. Casserley that they had asked her anyhow. hour later...

In the meantime Mrs. Casserley

they had and who "Ted" was and that During hearing in an atmosphere there? Yes.

Did

Casserley talk to you Chopin

had

slaying been

the at. flat. found some letters. of high drama it was stated that:

She (Ming Scott) also there.

WRY Do you knew if they went out to-

Scott

cott stated that while Mr. Cusseriey was in the nursing home gether?-Yes, about twice a week,

Would he have meals in the Mra, Casserley told Chaplin that she house? Yes, every lunch time.

told her husband by letter that had Miss Scott said that she knew the the was going to have a baby. address of

of the flat in Abbotsbury- Miss Scolt added that Chaplin Yond,

Morden, occupied by Chaplin,

came to the house in Lindisfarne-road Mr. Clayton: Do you know who

of the day of Mr. home in February, Chaplin stayed it was wild look the fint?---Well, I in the evening

ley's return

home and spoke it over. think Mrs. Casserley looked

Did Mrs. Casseriey say anything to to Mrs. Casserley in the back yard. you about the fat? She said that He did not see her hus

On March she was taking a fut for Mr. Chaplin,

y-Mr. Casserley went out in and spent the afternoon

Mrs. Casserley told Lydia Scatt was inking a flat for Chaplin:

sho

and

When Casserley was at a nursing

with Mrs. Casserley at her house. The case was adjourned,

*-BOOS

Mrs, Casserley was driven to court

by a woman friend. A number of women stood at the gates, and as the car drove in one of them began booing.

The first witness was Lyd Scott, maidservant to the Cassericys at the -time of the tragedy.

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Casserley's

husband.

She said that Chaplin had gono back to the house on the Wednes- day night and said that he was golog in to talk to Mr. Cassericy As man to

Ioan.

Miss Scott again broke down and wept. A police matron went to her assistance, but she burled her face

you remember when the flat trogedy-Mr the day of the in her hands and wept bitterly,

was taken?-1 should think about in the lounge while his wife "went to

October.

Do you know If Mrs. Casserley How often?-Occasional week-ends. went to the dat? Yes.

Did she stay the week-end thero? -Yes.

Do you remember the Christmas of inst year; where was Mrs. Casseriey? |

Dressed in green, with a black hat and veil, she said she had been em ployed by the Casserleys for about two years, and was the only maid-At the fint. kept by them.

She had known Chaplin about nine months, and Mrs. Casserley got to know klm about the same time.

Mr. E. Clayton, prosecuting: Do you know how I was that she got to know him?--He was working on a house being built next door.

HAD TEA

Would he come Into Casseriey's house? Not at the beginning.

Did he come in Inter?-Yes

Miss Scott added that she thought Mrs. Casserley returned home on the Tuesday after Christmas,

HER BABY

Miss Scott said that she did not go to the fat at Christmas. Mr. Cosser- at Landisfarne-road at ley was

She had stayed at the Christmas. flat when Mrs. Casserley was there. Mr. Clayton: What room did Mrs. Casserley occupy?-Where the double bed was.

Anyone in the room with her?- Chaplin.

have a

At about

o'clock Mrs. Cds- serley went to her in the acullery and said she was frightened. Mr. Casserley had told her that ahe would be a fool If she thought that he was going to let someone ebe have her.

A MESSAGE Continuing her evidence, she said that she went out about seven o'clock and Mrs. Casserley gave her a letter to post. She also anid to her that if she saw "Ted" would she give him a message.

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Mr. Clayton; What was the message you were to give him?-That it would come up to the back door she three him for two or could see minutes.

she saw Miss Scott added that Chaplin and delivered the mesage.

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BOTH IN TEARS Mrs. Casserley watched her closely, moment or two later she, too, be-

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You never said a word about the blood on the hand to the police until

07-No, Were you a friend of hers? Well, I was an acquaintance.

That is something different, is it not? Well, yes.

COURT HELD UP

The clerk had just begun to read over to Mrs. Hackelt his written re- cord of her evidence, when Mr. Maude, who was seated immediately in front of Mrs. Casseriey, interrupted to point out that Mra. Casserley had fainted, and that the court therefore could not proceed.

gan to cry.

Her companion offered her smelling

which she salis,

at first brushed aside.

One of the magistrates suggested Two police officers immediately that she should be taken out of the ran to Mrs. Casserley and carried her court-room for a few minutes, and from the court by a side entrance, that another witness give evidence. The court adjourned, but Mrs. Cas-

Charles Gaspard Daubney, chemist Berley did not return for half Hendon, hour. at the Police Laboratory,"

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the identified a raincoat and several but-

One exhibit, he said, a button witness, said that the cause of Cas- tons. found in the lounge, was similar ingerley's death was injury to the brai had taken as a sample from the

LIFE PRESERVER all respects to one of the buttons he and haemorrhage caused by a bullet. raincont.

At this point Mr. Derek Curtis Ben- nett, who is appearing for Chaplin, asked Mr. Daubney to hund him a document from which he was reading in the witness box.

As Mr. Curtis Bennett looked at the paper he observed, "It apears to be a carbon copy."

Mr. Daubney: The document is a copy of my report typed by the police

at the laboratory.

Mr. Curtis Bennett passed the 'document to the clerk, remarking to Daubney: "I hope somebody at the laboratory will teach you to give evidence without holding a proof in your hand.

The document was retained by the clerk.

As Miss Scott had not yet re- covered, Dr. Eric Gardner, of Way- bridge, was called,

He described his visit to the scene

of the tragedy early on March 24:

BULLET FOUND

Dr. Gardner said that he saw the body of Mr. Casserley, and under the carpet in the lounge he found a bul- Jet.

The doctor identified the grey suit] which Casserley had been wearing at the timo.

When a blood-stained shirt was produced, Mr. Curtis Bennett zug- rested that it should be kept out

of

sight and i was at once put back among the other exhibits.

An

next

A life preserver was produced and wounda Sir Bernard said that the could have been caused by the larger loaded end of such a weapon.

"The effect of the head injuries, continued Sir Bernard, "must have been to produce a dazed condition in which he fell over the back of the chair, where the trall of blood spots storts.

"If the blows had rendered him

pool of completely unconscious a blood would have formed on the car- pet where he lay.

"It was in a dazed condition, in my opinion, that he made his way to the end of the room, where the two pools were found, he being at that time incapable of offering resistance."

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Washington.

The United States army has perfected plans for dropping squads of troops equipped with machine guns behind enemy anes by parachute, a War De- partment apokesman said re-

Mrs. Peggy Hackett, of Lindisfarne-cently.

road, said that when she arrived home about 9.30 on the night of March 23

sho

The strategy calls for dropping a

went into No. 39 and saw Mrs. limited number of picked men to hold an important position until reinforce- Casserley.

menis can be rushed up by land, It was said.

"I noticed that there was some blood on the palm and the fingers hand," of Mrs. Caescricy's left

sald Mr. Hackett,

Later she and a Mrs. Burchull as aisted Mrs. Casserley to the bed-

room.

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Officials asserted that mass opera- tions, such as were conducted by the Soviet army in Russia recently, were not contemplated by this country. In Russian tests, it, was reported that a force of several hundred men and behind Mr. Maude (for Mrs. Casserley): It

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