SILLY WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1925, Page 5

SILLY WOMEN

INFATUATION FOR HYPOCRITE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 14. Amazing letters were read at the hearing of an -appeal by Homer Lane against his sentence to deportation on charges of prurient lecturing. The Court was crowded by ..fashionably dressed people. Sir- Curtis- Bennett, for the police, .contended that the letters from woliieri found at Lane’s flat could only mean that indecency had occurred during Lane’s treatment of his patients. One of those letters sighed: “The Devil,” was from a girl aged twentyfour. It read : “A hundred times you told my pal you loved her. You did not love her—you were merely amused by her Where did you get the motor car money? Despite my absolute disapproval she gave back your rotten promise to pay two cheques of five Hundred and one thousand sterling. You have just taken her money to buy yourself a car. I think you are a great hypocrite.” j Counsel said this girl really wrote of herself. The same day, tho same girl, signing herself “G.0.D.” wrote: “Dearest, —I am fearfully upset because a man living in the the same house insisted on writing to you. Don't believe a word. I like reading your book. It is like when mother read the Life of Christ at bedtime. I do not mind how you spend the money. T ’like you to have it. “The Devil” says you do not love me. That makes no difference. I love you far too much ever to marry anyone. You are the only man I shall river want. I want everlasting life with you. You are three times more aristocratic than anyone I ever met when presented at j Court.”

Another woman, who was married, wrote in, a similar strain. The defence was that the offence charged was a mere technicality. Lane had " openly practised as a psychologist, being consulted by r a large clientele. Fie received just as erotic letters from men, but the police had only produced those" from women. The appeal was dismissed, but the sentence was reduced to a fine of 40/-, and the deportation order was withdrawn upon Lane promising voluntarily to leave tho country and not to return.