Judge Walked Out

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 2

Judge Walked Out

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, January 12.

A High Court judge got up and walked out on Britain’s eccentric marathon walker. Dr. Barbara Moore, yesterday as she argued against his judgment.

Dr. Moore, aged 62, had been brought to London from Holloway Gaol where she was committed for contempt of the same court—during the same case—on December 21. She went back to gaol after the court session.

Dr. Moore, who walked the length of Britain and across Australia and the United States, had sued her neighbours, Major General Sir Kenneth Gray Buchanan and Lady Buchanan, over a right of way across the forecourt of her property in Frimley, south of London.

i The High Court ruled that while Dr. Moore owned the forecourt, the general and his wife had the right to drive through it to get to their apartment. She was ordered to pay all the costs, and £250 damages to the general, whom she is said to have kept virtual prisoner in his apartment. In a 26-page reserved judgment, Mr Justice Milmo described Dr. Moore as “cunning, unscrupulous and wholly unreliable.” Her husband. Mr Harry Moore, was “under his. wife’s domination and . . . had neither the ability nor the

determination to restrain her,” the judge said. “Oh,” said Dr. Moore, “I shall obviously go back to prison today after this court “Have you anything to say] about the form of the order?” ■ interrupted the Judge. ! “I wish to thank you for your generous taunts about me and my husband,” replied Dr. Moore. “I am so appalled that I have nothing to say. It is obviously a miscarriage of justice.” At her request the Judge said he would stay execution of the judgment if the damages awarded was lodged with the court within 14 days and a proper appeal was put in. But, said Dr. Moore, she would have to sell the property to pay the costs, and this would take time. Dr. Moore had a great deal| more to say but Mr Justice [Milmo did not hear it He I got up and walked out. Dr. | Moore was later escorted! [back to prison. Her consolation prize: £1 [ damages, for a “technical | trespass” caused by the wrong i siting of a fence between her! land and the general’s. Reward Offered.—The Woolworth millionairess Barbara Hutton has offered a 10,000dollar reward for information leading to the capture of ■ thieves who stole about; 120,000 dollars worth of cash! and jewellery from her home. [—Mexico City, January 12. |