LADY MAKGILL ACQUITTED
SHARP COMMENT FROM THE BENCH Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright LONDON, September 25. (Received September 26, at 2.15 p.m.) Lady Makgill was acquitted. _ The Common Sergeant, summing up, said: “It is not criminal to be reckless, foolish, and stupid. You may think that such as the snobbery of the age that people like to have titled customers on their books, and that some banks allow a person like Lady Makgill to deal with her account in a , manner not permitted others.”
Ladv Esther Makgill, aged 30, was charged with passing valueless cheques. The Common Sergeant is a law officer of the city of London, who advises the common council and presides at the Central Criminal Court.
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Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 11
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119LADY MAKGILL ACQUITTED Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 11
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