GAOL FOR PERJURY

Evening Star, Issue 19638, 18 August 1927, Page 13

GAOL FOR PERJURY

YOUNG TYPISTE FOUND GUILTY. After deli bora ting in private, for an hour and a-half a Liverpool Assize. jury found Doris Kenyon <23), a (ypislc, guilty on seven out of eight counts charging her with perjury, amt she was sentenced lo eighteen months’ imprisonment. 31 r Justice Fraser characterised tho offences as “very serious,” and said that but for a. strong recommendation lo mercy by the jury he would have given tho. prisoner a longer term of imprisonment. Tho perjury proceedings arose out of evidence given by (tic prisoner last November in the course of an assize, action brought by her fa I her for the allusjed seduction of bis daughter by Frank Stanley Scott, a partner in a firm of wholesale shipping butchers, by whom the accused had formerly been employed. She swore that Scott was the father of her child, and tho jury awarded Jlr Kenyon £l5O damages Subsequently there were proceedings in the police court regarding tr.e paternity of the child, and after a. bearing oxtendinn into ten days the stipendiary magistrate dismissed the case against Scott. Tbo judge, in summing up, said it would bo idle to shut one's eyes to tho fact that the case was an extraordinary one, and must have aroused public interest. The prisoner beard tbo sentence apparently unmoved. The proceedings had occupied seven days, and the jury wore exempted from further service for fen years.