KISS AFTER ACQUITTAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 39 (Supplement)

KISS AFTER ACQUITTAL

After a 34-year-old merchant banker had been acquitted at the Old Bailey, London, recently, a woman wearing a heavy mink coat went up to him in a hall outside the court and remarked, "It must havq been terrible, dear." They smiled, embraced fondly and kissed. Baron Hans Philip Korf, who was in tho dock for five minutes only, was found not guilty of obtaining £3500 by false pretences from Mrs. Lily Wooding. Mrs. Wooding was described at the Police Court as a wealthy 38-year-old widow, of Tudor Lodge, Purely. "The position is a little peculiar," Mr. John Flowers, K.C., stated. "The chief witness for the prosecution—the only witness to offer evidence for the prosecution—was Mrs. Lity Wooding. Since the last session the lady has changed her mind and is now married to the defendant." On behalf of the baron, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K.C., said: "The only allegation made against tho defendant was that madq by Mrs. Wooding. There was "no allegation from a public point at all; it was a private prosecution. "Mrs. Wooding, having come to the conclusion that there was no intention to defraud in the obtaining of this money, and taking the course that she has of marrying the defendant, he now leaves tho court without anything against him at all."