GAOL GOVERNORS SUED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20706, 2 May 1929, Page 9

GAOL GOVERNORS SUED

REMARKABLE CASE IN ENGLAND. EX-PRISONER’S ALLEGATIONS. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 30. Hayiey Morris, who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment tor indecently assaulting girls, after a sensational trial at Lewes, was again in the court yesterday, and was awarded £l5O damages against a. newspaper for publishing'.the details of his relations with a woman, which the jury adjudged to hr libellous. To-day Morris is suing the governors of Portsmouth and Pcntonvillo Gaols for alleged wrongful imprisonment, contending that whereas he should have been released on July 20, 1928, he was actually released on July 21, 1928, Mcrris gave evidence that he was unjustly deprived of five marks, which were equivalent to a day’s extra imprisonment, because the warder reported him to the governor for talking in the prison yard during the daily exercise. Morris complained that he was not allowed to call evidence to rebut the charge. Morris added that the governor of the Portsmouth prison was actuated by malice, because be refused the governor’s request to spy upon prisoners. The- case was adjourned.— Australian Press Association.