RUSHED TO AID SON.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20277, 11 April 1934, Page 1

RUSHED TO AID SON.

World’s Best-dressed Woman in Court. NEW YORK. April 4. Andrew Donaldson Kirwan, 23. was acquitted of the murder of William Sessoms, of Seattle, who died after having been stabbed a few days before in a ship in which both were members of the crew. The trial attracted national attention because Kirwan is the son of Jean Nash, the famous American beauty, who is noted as the world’s best-dressed woman. She was divorced several times, and is now the wife of M. Paul Dubonnet. She arrived ten days ago from Paris, and did her best, with clever lawyers and many smiles directed at the jury, to secure the boy’s acquittal. The jury was out for only twentyseven minutes. The main facts were not disputed, but evidently the killing was the result of a drunken brawl in which four or five men joined. High seas were running during the fight, and one seaman swore that Sessoms must have fallen on Kirwan’s knife.

Kirwan is the son of Jean Nash by her first husband, the late John Stanley Kirwan, and was born when his mother was aged only sixteen years. She later married, in succession, the late Winfield Burrows, the second son of Sir Clifford Sefton, Captain John Nash, and, in 1926, Paul Dubonnet.