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...Court, as the appeal proceeded, stalked Lord Kylsant, the appellant, one of the most impressive peers in Britain, a man more than six and a half feet tall, broad in proportion and fault- lessly garbed in cutaway and silk hat. Several times the Baron arrived at Court and departed from it in his twinkling limousine. But when the time came for Mr. Justice Avory to deliver his verdict on the appeal Lord Kylsant stalked to a cell, bent his massive head to enter and seated his great frame on the small cell chair to wait...
...jumped the Earl of Coventry, rushed to his father-in-law's cell and acquainted Lord Kylsant with the failure of his appeal. Lady Kylsant arrived sobbing. She and the huge man who had been called "Napoleon of the Seas" when he dominated the White Star, Royal Mail and numerous other lines (TIME, Feb. 23) had a last embrace. Then Lord Kylsant said to two warders who were hovering nearby, "My good men, I am ready to go with...
This time no Kylsant limousine waited. The two warders, dwarfed in size by their charge, cried: "Taxi! Hi, taxi!" When the cab drew up Lord Kylsant entered and sat down with a crunch. Asked the taxi driver, "Where...
...Wormwood Scrubs Prison, a soot-blackened pile in western London over-looking railway yards and a bleak, 200-acre common, Baron Kylsant and Sir John Simon pondered their next move. A final appeal was possible to Lord Kylsant's peers, the House of Lords, highest British court. On the other hand, by accepting his sentence of one year in jail and serving it meritoriously, Lord Kylsant could win a reduction of two months for "good behavior," might be a free man again as early as next September...
Even without an appeal to the House of Lords, the Kylsant case has already cost $200,000?$125,000 to Sir John Simon; $25,000 to solicitors who collected evidence and $50,000 for the expenses of the Attorney General's office. In Wormwood Scrubs, Lord Kylsant had a clean cell eight feet by ten, a bed, two sheets, two blankets, a stool, a table, a shelf for Bible & photographs. He could and did have all his meals sent in from a first-class caterer...