AMUSING ANECDOTE
Lady Hewart’s Interest
Lady Hewart, who accompanied her husband, the Lord Chief Justice, on assize recently, is not the first Judge’s wife to show an interest in Court procedure. Several Judges in the past have had their wives sitting beside them on the bench during trials. Alost ardent of these privileged spectators was Lady Diana Huddleston, who married Baron Huddleston in 1872. Murder trials had a special fascination for her. During the hearing of one case a briefless junior amused himself by composing the following limerick
There was an old baron named Huddy, Who made it Ins aim and his study No murder to try Without Lady Di, Whose mind was essentially bloody.
The flicker of amusement which followed this missive as it was passed along the junior row reached the Judge’s ears, and he demanded to see the paper. “Lady Di.” never appeared at another murder trial.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 160, 22 June 1935, Page 11
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