PRISON VISIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 9

PRISON VISIT.

MOTHER JVITH BABE.

MAIDSTONE INCIDENT.

FATHER SERVING TEN TEARS.

(Special—By Air Mall.)

MAIDSTONE, August 20,

Mrs. Casserley went to Maidstone gaol with her five-week-old son Roy, for the first time Bince his birth, to visit Edward Royal Chaplin, who was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of her husband in his Wimbledon villa. This was the first time Chaplin had seen his son. She arrived in a limousine accompanied 'oy Chaplin's brother and her sister. Mrs. Casserley, in a bluepatterned crepe de chine dress, hurried into the prison clasping the baby in her arms.

For several minutes she sat on a' wooden bench inside the entrance. Then, accompanied by a warder, she and Chaplin's brother went to a barely furnished room where the prisoner! awaited them.

Chaplin, neatly dressed in a grey lounge suit, and looking fit and strong, jumped up and leaned across the deal table. He kissed her. For a few minutes they did not speak.

He took his eon in his arms and was allowed to nurse him throughout the interview, which lasted two hours.

Soon after five o'clock the car drove] into the main entrance of the gaol, andj the gates were locked. A few minutes later they were reopened, and the carl drove back to Epsom, where Mrs. ICasserley is staying with Chaplin's Ibrother.

Nursing her baby there, she said to me: "We discussed our future. I told him I would await his release. In two or three weeks, after baby has been christened, I shall take him away to a quiet place on the south coast." J