DEAD MAN'S REPUTATION

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 March 1925, Page 5

DEAD MAN'S REPUTATION

A WOMAN’S PLEA.

ECHO OF DENNISTOUN CASE.

■.mas Association—Electric lelegrapE- LopyrigL LONDON, Friday.

A fervent plea lor tier liusoand’s name was niaue by Lady Cowans in an interview in the Evening Standard.

“1 owe it to Sir John, ’' she said, ‘‘" to say that he was the soul of kindness. 1 always had everything my heart could desire. Now his name is sacrificed and torn to pieces. To read the case from day to. day was for me as though I were being suffocated, yet could not pmt out a hand. Apart from tho burning injustice to a dead man’s reputation being at the mercy of public scandal, 1 would like to ask how it is possible for these things to be blazoned abroad without those most intimately concerned being given notice. Until I saw the reports in the newspaper I had no idea that such a thing could ever, happen. I immediately rushed from the country to Loudon. “I consulted solicitors, but on every hand was told: ‘No one can hold a brief for the dead.’ Can anything be imagined unfairer and more agonising to those whom such a man leaves behind, that being dead he is not allowed tho right accorded the ordinary criminal? All my husband’s sins were the sins of kindness aiid generosity, but they were never against his country.

“Another of the effects of this case makes me utterly miserable: It is the people who are saying that the revelations represent English society: It is not true; they are no more an indication of the lives of the aristocracy, for they are not. of it, than «n individual who charges from the mass of the people is representative of the general population.” —Aus. and N.Z, Gable Assn.

BREACH OF PROMISE,

MORE TROUBLE FOR DENNIS* TOUN.

(Received Monday, 10.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sunday.

Lois Meredith, the picture actress, while refusing to comment, did not deny the Paris report that she was the American, “young, unmarried and beautiful,” about to sue Dennistoun. for ‘breach of promise.—Aus. and N.Z. Goble Assu.