DIVORCE GRANTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17229, 8 April 1930, Page 7

DIVORCE GRANTED

MURDERER AS CO-RE. PRELUDE TO EXECUTION LONDON, April 7. The undefended divorce Morse v. Morse and Fox came before Mr. Justice liill to-day, the day before Fox is banged.

A decree nisi was granted George Morse, captain of a Shire liner, on toe grounds of his wife’s misconduct with fox.

It is noteworthy that Fox has refused Uj appeal against the sentence and is also emphatic in regard'to no plea of insanity. •‘1 do not want to prolong the agony,” Fox wrote to his solicitors.

EARLY CRIMINAL CAREER

CLIMAX TO LIFE OF CRIME

LONDON, March 22

Sensational revelations of his earlier criminal career have been made following the trial of Henry Fox, who was sentenced to death yesterday on Lin. charge of having murdered Ins mother with the object of securing the insurance on her life.

At the age of 13, Fox received a birching at Fust Dereham police station for stealing money. He was a junior clerk in a London bank during the war, and a scries of small frauds were traced to him. He was given the choice of prosecution or joining the army, and he chose the army. Later on he secured an officer's uniform, and a cheque book, and deserted, and earned three months’ hard labor for cheque frauds, lie was also sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment in 1919 for forgery, as well as other terms for shop and hotel frauds—his pleasant, plausible manner persuaded the managers to cash his bogus cheques. According to the Daily Express Fox and his mother dually met Mrs. Morse, a wealthy Sydney woman, who was visiting England with her two sons. Mrs Morse furnished a flat at Southsea, whore'Fox,' who was then an insurance agent, induced her to insure her life for RuCOO. Later on Mrs. Morse made a will, under which Fox would benefit considerably. Fox asserted that Mrs. Morse had borrowed £SOOO from him, and wanted the money paid back after her dentil, hence her will. Suspicious incidents followed, and the friendship, between Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Morse -was broken. Mrs. Morse refused to see Fox again, and the will in his favor was revoked. Fox then entered Mrs. Morse’s flat and stole certain property, for which lie was sentenced to 15 months’ impiisonment. Meanwhile his mother was in Portsmouth workhouse, and she remained there until her son was released in March, 1929.