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...public sensation of flat, sun-washed Nairobi, capital of Britain's Kenya Colony, is the drawn-out trial of one of its first citizens for the murder of another. This week, in a hot, crowded courtroom, Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton was awaiting the verdict of a jury of his peers. For a full month he had seen the Crown Counsel, witness by witness, put together a damning picture of the murder of his friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (TIME, March...
Familiar indeed to readers of Somerset Maugham was the story's plot, a simple, violent tale of British mannerliness upset by tropic passions. Last December 57-year-old Sir Jock married young Diana Caldwell in London, brought her out to his Kenya estate. At the smart Muthaiga Country Club she had met the dashing earl, fallen violently and very publicly in love with him less than a month after her marriage. Sir Jock had tried to persuade her to go with him to Ceylon to forget the earl. When she refused he even offered to go away himself. Then...
...defense Sir Jock testified for 22 full hours. The earl, he said, was "a very great friend, whose brain and sense of humor I admired." He also told of a two-line dialogue between himself and the earl...
Damning to Sir Jock was the testimony of his African houseboy, who had seen him take two pistols from his bedroom to his study shortly before the murder; the story of the policeman who found part of a bloody golf stocking and bits of charred sacking in a bonfire Sir Jock built the morning after the murder; his own question to a police inspector: "If you found your wife in bed with a man and shot him, would you be hanged for murder...
Bancroft G. (Just Call Me Gerry) Davis '41 and John L. (Just Call Me Jock) Hoffman '42 will do the reading as they have done the writing. The program will begin at 9:30 and last for 12 minutes, after which Sumner Q. X. Andrews, circulation manager, will make a short plea for subscriptions...