Bound Over for Assault.
Lady Elizabeth Motion, daughter of the third Earl of Verulam, was bound over and ordered to pay 10 guineas costs at St. Albans, when she was summoned for assaulting a 19-year-old shoe repairer. Charles Garden, who went to visit a girl friend at a Land Army hostel on Motion’s estate. Garden gave,evidence that he
was standing in the roadway when Motion told' him to get back Jo the village where he belonged. She hit him with a wooden spoon and then cracked a hunting crop. Motion told the court that she had used no more force than was necessary to shoo him away with the spoon. She got the hunting crop to overawe Garden and cracked it to show her authority.— London, July 28.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1946, Page 7
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