SWAYED JURY
ACTRESS’ LOVE LETTERS I COST HER £15,000 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15. A jury of live women and seven men, after nine ballots to-day, awarded £15,000 damages against the noted screen star, Claire Windsor, after a hearing lasting for three weeks, of a suit, brought by the wife of a young Han Francisco broker, Alfred Read, of alienating his affections. The verdict came as a surprise, in view of -Read’s mother giving sensational evidence on the final day that her sou. was entirely to blame, and that he misled Claire Windsor into believing that ho and his wife were already apart when they were meeting. Read ’s wife divorced him last month. According to the jury, they were swayed by a pacxet of 300 love letters written by Claire Windsor. | The judge told the jury that it was not a defence on Claire Windsor’s j part to say she believed the Reads , were not living together when the romance began.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 3
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