MRS. SIMPSON'S LAWYER

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 7

MRS. SIMPSON'S LAWYER

CANNES VISIT EXPLAINED.

STATEMENT BY KING'S OFFICER.

DAMAGING RUMOURS REFUTED. United Press Association. —Copyright. Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, December 9. Mr. Theodore Goddard, one of Mrs. Simpson's solicitors, with Mr Sidney Barron, his clerk, who flew to Marseilles yesterday and went to Cannes, have left there for Paris. Dr. Kirkwood, a London practitioner, has gone to Marseilles, where he will take a plane for London. Mr. Goddard, after an interview lasting 2\ hours with Mrs. Simpson, declined to make a statement. Lord Brownlow, Lord-in-Waiting to King Edward, who is at Cannes, in a further statement said Mrs. Simpson had signed no document whatever. Her lawyer's visit was solely for the purpose of discussing his client s London business. Lord Brownlow added: "I can tell you Dr. Kirkwood's visit was not announced to me. It was not until 7 p.m. last night that I even knew Mr. Goddard was coming. I understand Dr. Kirkwood is a private practitioner with an office in Sloane Street, London, and is a friend of Mr. Goddard. I just telephoned Mr. Goddard at his hotel here and he told me that this being the first time he had flown in an aeroplane, and being in bad health, he had asked a doctor friend to accompany him. Dr. Kirkwood is leaving io-day for Monte Carlo. "These rumours are of such a damaging nature that too many precautions cannot be taken to guard against them. There is not a grain of truth in them. So far as I know Dr. Kirkwood is a private practitioner. I do not know anything of his being a gynecologist, but if he is, he is certainly not here in gelation to Mrs. Simpson." Lord Brownlow made a full reply to a list of written questions which journalists submitted. ,He said: "Mrs. Simpson has signed no document whatever Mr. Goddard's visit, as stated last night, was purely for the purpose of discussing Mrs. Simpson's business in London. Dr., Kirkwood left for Marseilles early this morning. He has not visited the villa at all. Dr. Kirkwood's presence in the 'plane is due to the fact that Mr. Goddard was advised not to fly or make any undue effort without a medical attendant." A member of the household is credited with saying: "The mistress certainly does not want to reopen her London house for many months, if ever.