HOMER LANE AND WOMEN

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1925, Page 4

HOMER LANE AND WOMEN

A Pl' I•:A 1 . AGAINST DK PU 1! TA'f IU X VCt'TIIAMAN AND N.Z. OAnr.II AftHOOIATiOW LONDON. May li. Ama/.iiie- letters were read at tin ■ ealine o| an ap(ja*al hy Moiner Ham ititiiin.-t his sentence tu deportatinn on chafers ~i prurient Let urine;. T.hi Court was crowded hy fashionably dressed people. Kir Curtis ISennett. lur the police, eiuilcnded dial tin- letters from wm-n-eii found at Lane’s flat eouhl onlv men it that iiuleeencv Lad oeeurred ‘luring bane’s (realincut of hi- patients.

Hue oi (liose letters, signed: “The Devi!” was from a girl aged twentybmr. ft read: “A liumlred times you toll! my pal you lived her. You did not love her - you w ere merely amused by her! Where did you get the nioftir-onr Money)' Despite mv aLsolute disapproval she gave hack your rotten jiromiso to jiay two e)ie(|ues of live liundrcd and one thousand sterling. 011 have ,iu.-t taken her money to buy yourself a car. I think you are a great hypocrite.” Cutinsel said this girl really wrote ot herself, die same day, tlie same girl signing her-elf '•(■'.( She "roie: “Dearest I am fearfully upset because a man in the same house

insisted no writing you. D- n’t heliev, a word. 1 like reading your hook. I is like when Mother read the Life o

. Christ at hod-time. T do not mint how you spend the motley. 1 like ym to have it. "Tlie Devil" says you dc not love me. That makes no difference. I love you far too much ever tc marry anyone. You are the only mail I shall ever want. 1 want everlasting life with you. You are three times more aristocratic than anyone 1 ever met when piv-ented a* Court 1" .'.noiher woman, who wa- married wroie in a similar strain. The defence was that the offence charged was a mere technicality. Lane had openly practised as a phyrhologist. heiiia: consulied hv a lartce clientele. lie received in-t as erotic letters from men. hut the police had only produced those from women. The -appeal was dismissed hut thsentence was reduced to a lino of tits and the deportation order was withdrawn upon Lane promisin'; voluntar- I ilv to leave the country, and not to I return. j