On January 22 "Mr. A." was surprised to find Mme. Bernhard outside a bank in the West-end, and it was then that she threatened that unless he paid her £160 she would send "Mr. A's" letters and photographs to his wife.
Mr. John Phipps, defending, pointed out that when "Mr. A." started to cool off last autumn he did not say so directly to Mme. Bernhard.
Instead. he continued to write protestations of love, and as late as January 9 he wrote y dear Princess—I kiss you again in imagination, and hope soon to kiss you in reality.
In his summing-up, ord Hewart referred to "Mr. A's" letters as appalling apd said it was a degradation of the word to call them love 1 might draw very sinister conclusions from that if I liked, he said, but 1 don't think it would be just to do so in this case.
Mrs. Van der Elst had told him she ran ten businesses, and called attention to the brilliance of her own intellect and to her intelligence, but he could not rely on her recollection regarding the matters in issue.
He must say the same about Mr. Winston, whose attitude in the box was, quite unconsciously, continuously misleading. over 66 letters, and a further 33 letters had been produced by the defence in addition to photographs and negatives.
Mr. Phipps explained that these had been in the possession of Mme. Bernhard's mother in Budapest, and they had been refit to this country. letters, Lord Hewart dealt with an appeal for sympathy for Mme. Bernhard, and went on to say: Let it be granted that the prosecutor behaved disgraceful and with. treachery towards his wife and children.
How friendly he was with the accused we have not been told "He says he did not become what is politely called her lover.
"She says she did, in fact, become his mistress."
"Dying Wife" Talk Continuing his summing-up. Lord Hewart said it Mas common ground that Mme. Bernhwid knew "Mr. was a married man"
Whatever you may think of the prosecutor, Lord Hewart told the jury, what was this on her part but a commercial transaction of the lowest possible kind may think to talk about sym-is almost an affront to the English language.
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