SURPRISE VERDICT.
AGAINST NOTED FILM STAR. A Los Angeles jury of five women and seven men, after nine ballots, awarded 75,000 dollars (£15,000 at par) damages against the noted screen star, Claire Windsor, after a trial lasting three weeks, of a charge brought by the wife of a young San Francisco broker, Alfred Read, of alienating his affections. The verdict came as a surprise, in view of Read’s mother giving sensatibnal evidence on the final day that her son was entirely to blame, and that ho misled Claire Windsor into believing that he 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 packet of 300 love letters written by defendant. Tlie Judge told the jury that it was not a defence on defendant’s part - to say she believed the Reads were not living together when her association with Read began.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 9
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156SURPRISE VERDICT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 9
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