THE FEUDAL SPIRIT
EARL’S DAUGHTER IN COURT “VASSAL" VISITOR ASSAULTED (Rec 9 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. Lady Elizabeth Motion, daughter of the third Earl of Vertilam, was bound over and ordered to pay 10 guineas costs at St. Alban’s when she was summoned for assaulting a 19-year-old shoe repairer, Charles Garden, who went to visit his girl friend at a Land Army hostel on Lady Motion’s estate. Garden gaVe evidence that he was standing in the roadway 'When Lady Motion told him to get back to the village where he belonged. She hit him with a wooden spoon and then cracked a hunting crop. Lady Motion told the court that she 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.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26216, 29 July 1946, Page 5
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