Liar and Coward

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 12

Liar and Coward

Judge Brands Company Directors In emphatic terms Judge Sir Alfred Tobin expressed his opinion ot two company directors, in giving judgment at Westminster County Court. Mr W. E. Gardener, a High Holborn builder, claimed £7B from Mr. Harry Heading and Mr. Walter Digby, company directors, for work done in the offices of their companies. The :udge is a perfectly honourable man. ... . “The defendant Digby prima facie— I only say prima facie —is a liar, and though prima facie evidence has been given against him, he has not cared to go into the witness- box. “The defendant Heading is apparently—l only say apparently — a contemptible coward. He instructed his counsel —who has conducted this case with great ability and absolute 1 airness—to cross-examine plaintiff on various points with the view of inducing me to believe that plaintiff was committing perjury. "On those points Heading could ia\e given evidence, but he has not dared to go into the witness-box to give evidence and be cross-examined. “Pleading has fought this case with poisoned weapons or, to quote the words of a well-known advocate, with ‘the dagger of the assassin,’ but for all that no blame whatever is attachable to his counsel.” Judgment was given for Mr. Gardener, stay of execution being refused.