SHOWING AUTHORITY COSTS TEN GUINEAS
Received Sunday, 7 p.m. . .LONDON, July 28. Lady Elizabeth Motion, daughter of tlie tliinl Earl of Verulam, was bouiul over and ordered to pav ten guineas costs at St. Albans, when suinnioned for assaulting a 19-year-obl slioe rejiairer, Cliarles Garden, wlio went to visit a girl friend at the Land Army hostel on Lady Motion 's estate. Garden gave evidenee that he was standing on tlie roadvvay when Lady Motion told him to get baek to the village where he belonged, hit him with a wooden spoon and then eracked a huiitiiig erop. Lady ilotion told the Court she used no more force than necessary to shoo him away with the spoon. She got the hunting crop to' overawe Garden and eracked it to show autliority.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1946, Page 5
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