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...their coverage of Dr. John Bodkin Adams' trial on a charge of murder, five London newspapers-the Daily Mail, News Chronicle, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mirror-had libel writs from Dr. Adams' lawyers...
Britain's bodkin-tongued, America-baiting Nancy (Love in a Cold Climate) Mitford,* 52, was induced to refight the Revolutionary War by the New York Herald Tribune's Paris Postscripter Art Buchwald. Asked what American she dislikes most, gentle Nancy, whose foot has never touched U.S. soil, replied: "Abraham Lincoln. I detest Abraham Lincoln. When I read the book The Day Lincoln Was Shot, I was so afraid he would go to the wrong theater. What was the name of that beautiful man who shot him?" "John Wilkes Booth." "Yes, I liked him very much!" Does Nancy like...
...most curious situation, perhaps unique in these courts," mused Mr. Justice Devlin last week, "that the act of murder has to be proved by expert evidence." Even Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the defendant in one of the longest murder trials in Old Bailey's history, was said to have asked in wonderment, "Can you prove it was murder?", when police arrested him last December on suspicion of having poisoned his eccentric old patient, Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell, in seaside Eastbourne six years earlier...
Heeding the judge's warning that this gesture must not be interpreted as a sign of guilt, the jury of ten men and two women took less than an hour to return its verdict on Defendant John Bodkin Adams-not guilty. With a suggestion of happy tears brimming in his bespectacled eyes, the pudgy doctor drove away from the court to the offices of the Daily Express, presumably to iron out the details of the Beaverbrook paper's purchase (for a reported $14,000) of his life story...
...speculation was focused on the demise of Eastbourne's eccentric old (81) Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell. The cause, according to a death certificate duly filed by her physician, was "cerebral thrombosis," i.e., a stroke. In three decades of practice at Eastbourne, the physician, kindly, pudgy Dr. John Bodkin Adams, had eased the end for many an octogenarian patient, and Mrs. Morrell's timely passing caused scarcely a ripple at the bridge tables. The old lady was cremated. Her son gave Dr. Adams her old Rolls-Royce and a valuable chest of family silver as a token of gratitude...