EX-SPEAKER’S SON GOES TO GAOL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9138, 6 May 1908, Page 2

EX-SPEAKER’S SON GOES TO GAOL.

SEQUEL TO A SENSATIONAL KIDNAPPING CASE. '

There has been an interesting sequel to the recent abduction of little Miss Gully, the granddaughter of Yiscount Selby, the ex-Speaker of the House of Commons. father of the child, the Hon. James 'Gully, against whom an order committing him to prison for contempt of court had been made in the High Courts, surrendered himself to the authorities,“and was driven off to Brixton Prison. It appears that Mr Gully, on the death of his sister a few weeks ago, wrote to the judge that he proposed to return to attend her funeral, and thereupon the Court, to enable him to do so, suspended the committal order till the other day, when, after living openly in London at his father’s, he, as had been all along arranged with the authorities, surrendered atghis solicitor’s offices. The circumstances of the strange affair, which caused a great sensation at the time, will be readily recalled. The Hon. James [Gully had been living apart from his wife, and their little daughter, Leslie, a pretty child of 10, was made a ward in Chancery, the order of the court placing her under the charge of her mother but allowing her father to see her occasionally at Lord Selby’s residencejin Buckingham weeks ago, shortly after his daughter had been brought by her nurse to visit him. Mr Gully was seen to place his daughter in a taxi-cab, which was waiting outside, and drive rapidly away. With the exception of a telegram, ‘ ‘ Leslie is all right,” the mother was left without knowledge of the whereabouts of the child. Then at the instance of the mother’s solicitor, the judge, sitting in upon the Hon. James Gully to restore the child to the mother’s custody, and at the same time his lordship made a commitment order against Mr Gully. After a search lasting over a week Mr Gully and the missing daughter were traced to Stockholm. The child is now safe in London* with her mother. h