Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like few men or women who wind up in the prisoner's dock at the Old Bailey, Stephen Ward was educated, charming and gifted. What destroyed him, and turned a merely sordid morals case into the trial of the decade, was none of the conventional or even unconventional deadly sins. It was a compulsive, consuming snobbery...
...coveted acquaintances, versatile Stephen Ward held out the key to an exotic demimonde of teen-age trollops and rarefied sexual rites that seemed more in keeping with Lautrec's Montmartre than tidy Thamesside. The second son of a country clergyman, he had a lifelong talent for spotting, seducing and sophisticating pliable provincial lasses. "I suppose," said he, "that I have been one of the most successful men with girls in London since the war." He used this gift unremittingly for his friends, who rewarded him with a social acceptance that meant far more to him than the financial proceeds...
Revenge Trial. In return for favors past, Stephen Ward remained jauntily confident that Top People would come to his rescue when he was arrested last June and charged with living on prostitutes' earnings. At his trial, all Britain waited expectantly for the celebrated "surprise witnesses" he had promised. It was not until the seventh day that the crumpling reality finally caught up with him. It came midway in Mr. Justice Marshall's remorseless, five-hour summing-up of the evidence. "There may be many reasons why he has been abandoned in his extremity," declared the red-robed judge...
Some did-but not one nob. That night, the dejected Ward summoned a Daily Express reporter to a friend's apartment and poured out his bitterness. "This," said he, "has been a political revenge trial. Someone had to be sacrificed, and it was me. One or two people can still vindicate me, but when the Establishment wants blood, you can't wriggle...
...convicted, Ward faces up to 25 years in prison-a virtual life sentence at his age. If acquitted, his agent solemnly announced last week, the energetic osteopath will make a lecture tour of the U.S. His topic: "The Current State of Morality in Britain...