LETTER TO KING
Alleged Demand for Money With Threats HADDON BEFORE COURT London, January 11. Committed for trial from Bow Street Police Court, Clarence Gay Gordon Haddon, aged 43, described as an engineer, appeared at the Old Bailey charged with "uttering, while knowing the contents thereof, a letter demanding money from the King with menaces and without reasonable or probable cause.” Haddon intimated that he desired at the outset to show that he had grounds for making appeals to the King. Mr. Justice Charles: You cannot subpoena witnesses who are not relevant to the charge. Those you indicate do not seem to come to the actual issue of the charge. Haddon: Rightly or wrongly, lam trying to show that I have been hounded and pestered all my life through a certain belief. These people would verify my statement. Mr. Justice Charles: That does not bear on the question of,guilt or innocence in this particular charge. Haddon: I have witnesses to say that my mother secretly married the Duke of Clarence. Mr. Justice Charles: We won’t say anything about that at the moment. I grant subpoenas, but my duty will be to decide whether the witnesses should be heard. Haddon was remanded on ball until January 19.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 93, 13 January 1934, Page 11
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