ABDUCTED HIS DAUGHTER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11231, 21 March 1908, Page 5

ABDUCTED HIS DAUGHTER.

- — ♦ I ' ■•• I - ■' . ■. ■. '- (Press Assn.—By Telegraph.— ebpyright.) (Received March 21, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 20. ;! Mr Justice Warrington sentenced Gully; to six -weeks' imprisonment from the date of his arrest. • ■ A London paper of February 7 states ;J In Chambers on Monday Mr Justice War-! rington, made an order calling upon H6n. James Gully to return his daughter to her. mother's care, arid"'", another order committing Mr Gully to prison forcoV tempt of court. „ ; These proceedings were the outcome of. a sensational incident which occurred two clays' previously. The Hon. Jamed Gully, eon of Viscount Selby, ex^Speaketf of the Hoiise «>f Gommbna, has for some time been living apart from his wifei Their daughter, Leslie, a bright little lass of ten years of age, was made ft ward in Chancery, Mrs Gully being given the custody of the child, the father to be allowed to -see her periodically at Lord Selby's house, 3; Buckingham Gate? S.W. One of these periodical interVie\v|' was arranged for February 1, and in the afternoon Leslie was takeii. to Buckingi ham Gate, to see her father. Mr Gully was already there, and shortly after th^ nurse had left the two alone, they wjjr^ seen to come out of the house, enter" ii waiting taxi-cab, and drive rapidly awayl With them went Miss Dorothy Gi-ey, youngest daughter of the late Sir William. Grey, and sister of Lady Eden, whose portrait by Sargent was one, of the Academy sensations two years ago. At 8.52 the same evening Mrs Gull;jr received a telegram, which had been, handed in at Vei'e street post office, saying, "Leslie, is all right," and signed "Hall Porter, Langham hotel. " This telegram was in two handwritings. The words "Leslie, is all right" were recognised to have been written ' by Mr Gully; but the signature, "Porter, Langham hotel," was in an awkward scrawl. No polN ter at the Langham. hotel has, however, been found who was in any way cortneeted with the handing in of: such ft telegram, and nothing was known of s Mr Gully. Inquirers at the residence of Mr Gully were told that he had left with his luggage for Paris, and that instrub- , tions had been given by him to let the house. A personal friend of the family said : "I know Mr Gully was passionately devoted to his daughter; He wiis very anxious to have his daughter to live with him always, and said, that he could not bear to see her only at stated intervals. She was the only child of the marriage, and he idolised her."