Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, repre: senting the woman defendant, today applied at the Sussex Assizes for.a postponement until the next Assizes of the trial of Hayley Mor rise and his wife, which had been Axed for Monday. Counsel aid that Mrs. Morris was seriously il After much legal argument Mr. the applica-Edwant Marshall Hall, Crown, for th Po'ntment of an independent medical witness to examine Mrs. Morris, who was in a nursing home in Lon-
Mr. St. John Hutchinson unsue. cessfully applied for Hayley Morriss to remain on bail, saying that presence w ical examination of the woman, but the Judge ordered him to remain iw custody saying that he would] consider next Monday whether Mor-ries should be tried alone if his wife was not fit to attend, honk datodan npesied charge of a murder. The woman walked briskly from a local hotel, 1 as press photographers snapped her. Both pleaded "not guilty".
The Judge dectined to hear evid-fence on the woman's condition and replying to counsel's plea that she was not fit to stand a long trial, said: "In my opinion there has been already a deliberate attempt to deceive the Court and I am not sure that there has not been something worse, namely, an attempt to interfere with the course of justice." The Jvdge declined to hear her counsel further.
Dee, 18. At the Lewes Assizes to-day Sir} hall Hall, opening the prosecu-id that Hayley Morriss. was} merchant engaged in Chinese} trade.
The woman prisoner, Madelli Roberts, had been a domestic servant and a shop assi int, ut} when arrested she wai housekeeper to Morris the charges, he said that Miss Roberts not merely conspired to procure girls, but did her utmost to get them to do what she knew Morriss wanted them to do.
Sir Marshal Hall told how the police began to make inquiries after 2 girl, in the absence of the prisoners, had telephoned to her friends London, The roads were then arched and the girl was foun? crouching in a ditch corny ex. hausted. She was taken to her friends. Then the evidence of other girls was obtained. There were three cases of girls under 16 and other cases of girls above 16, besides girls who resisted and escaped harm.
Sir Marshall Hall concluded by asking the jury, if they convicted the accused of the "sordid and abominable offence," not to let fear or favour deter them for recording proper verdict, A number of the female prisoner's sister, who said that her father was dead' and that she had been in service. The female prisoner had left home when her father died. Witness was not aware of her whereabouts until last Christmas when she telephoned to witness to come to Pippingford Park. She stayed there for two nights. A fort-tht later he took. her there by] train, buying her a-few clothes. Her visit lasted for six weeks. happened until the She had not told her sister Another sister was also there.
Witness said that she told Morriss before the alleged incident that her age was 14. Cross-examined, wi ness said that she had never told anyone about the matter until the police saw her and helped her to remember what happened.
Later.
The case.wnk adjourned until tomorrow. The Judge directed both the accused to remain in custody.
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