KNEW FOX

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 13

KNEW FOX

MRS. MORSE’S SON “ROOM G 6” CASE SYDNEY, April 9. Ail extraordinary story surrounding ilip “ Room titi’’ murderer, Henry Fox, was told to-day by Mr. Graham Morse, son of the petitioner and respondent in the English divorce suit, decided yesterday, in which Fox was named as co-respondent. If was disclosed that Fox and Mrs. .Morse had known each oilier for some lime. In peculiar circumstances Mrs, Morse had become insured, and while, a policy was still in existence was* found gassed. The insurance policy had been made over to Fox, who, according to evidence at his trial, had insured his own mother and then murdered her.

Mr. Graham Morse is a cultured young man, who will be 21 next month. He said his mother's people were very wealthv, but he declined to state their

“Il'er father is 82 years of age, ami is a very prominent man in Bydney, ’’ lie said. “1 have, too much respect for him to mention his name iu this matter, .He is so broken up over the whole thing that he has gone away for a holiday. ’'

lie added that his grandfather had the principal interest, in a business in (Sydney worth £.'500,000, and was a director in several concorn.s, including a bank. KNEW HIM TWO TEAKS

“I. have had to do many things against ipy grain,” lie declared. “1 am my father's friend —he is a tine man—and 1 have done all in my power to defend and protect my mother, who lives on the northern side of Sydney harbor.

“It was intended that this divorce case .should have gone through quietly, and had Fox not murdered his mother and been found out, it would have done so. lie said tilings, and my mother’s name was dragged into M, and, of course, publicity resulted. “For two years—though, on account. of my youth, you may not think so—l have worked in 'connection with the divorce case, always with my parents’ interests at heart.' I’m sorry that, the divorce could not have gone through without this fuss.” Hr. Morse has known Fox for two years, but only when he was pressed would he speak of the man. His remarks indicated his belief that his mother find been Fox’s victim. MOTHER’S UEE INSURED “After my .mother had been found gassed,’’ lie said, “she told me that Fox had persuaded her to sign an insurance policy for .Cloo. She mentioned a debt. After the gas incident I went to the insurance company, and learned that she had been insured through an agency for £OOOO, and the company manager agreed with me that a naught had been added, and a ‘l’ turned into ‘ 0. ’ “I told them that my mother had been gassed, and, on my suggestion, tin' policy was immediately cancelled. ’ ’

Mr. Morse would not speak of the tragedy in the hotel at Margate. “Von know all about that,” he said. Fox, he declared, had been convicted on several occasions. lie described him as shrewd and cunning—a man who could either laugh or cry at will. He denied the story that Fox had been sent to gaol on a charge of having stolen .Mrs. Morse’s jewellery, valued at £ISOO. That, jewellery, lie said, belonged to another woman.

Mrs. Morse came to Australia a little more than six months ago. The son was then an insurance man in England, and he came out about three mouths ago, on a particular mission. He has done only a mouth’s work iu Svdnev.

“I’ll go back,” lie said. “1 had to rrj ve ii]i my job, and will have to start again from scratch. 1 have had a lot to stand, but it was in the interests of my family.” Mr'. Morse, who is staying with relatives in Hoyle street, Cremonie, said that his mother was happily situated in Australia. She lived in a nice, homo, and, he said, received an allowance of £SO a month.