FORCED ATTENTIONS
Over 200 love letters written by a school mistress to a D.S.O. colonel were referred to in the King's Bench Division recently (according to the London "Daily 'Chronicle"). An injunction was sought to restrain a school.mistress, of Tunbridgo Wells, from .annoying Lieutenant-Colonel James Willes-Jennings, DiS.O., of the Junior United 'Service "Clubj^by communicating or,attempting to communicate with' him by letter or otherwise.,"' There.was no defence. ■ Counsellor the "colonel' said the colonel was'a retired officer of the Royal Army Medical, Corps. From 1923 up to the present timo the defendant had continuously and persistently annoyed him by sending letters addressed to. him at the. club .whr'.re,he; iivecl,-expressing her affection ifpr mm^anclh'eqtlesting-.iiiin to meet her. There had beeii- over-. 200 of such letters. Solicitors had asked her to discontinue the • annoyance, and sho\had promised to do so, 1 but it continued. Mi. Juatico Talbcfc granted the injunction.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 28
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146FORCED ATTENTIONS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 28
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