MURDER TRIAL —
IN HIGH SOCIETY

N 1932 LONDON society was
rocked by a great sensation — an
educated woman of good family

was tried for the murder of her lover
— tried and acquitted.

Elvira Dolores Barney was _ the
spoiled daughter of good, respectable
parents—her father a titled broker
of considerable wealth. She was mar-
ried when quite young,but the union
soon broke up, and she was separated
from her husband, who lived in the
States at the time of her trial.

Murder is not what one would
classify as a sophisticated crime; edu-

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GERTRUDE
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cated and well-bred people do not, as
a rule, make such rash and uncon-
sidered judgments as to employ force
or lethal weapons against others. —
knowing full well that such actions
will almost certainly be punished by
law.

Murder is more often associated
with denizens of the underworld —
gangsters, hold-up men, gamblers,
prostitutes and such like. Among
people such as these inhibitions are
rare.

When murder does occur in the
upper circles of society, or even
among middle class people, it is,
indeed, a cause celebre.

Elvira Dolores Barney, the central
figure of one of London’s most-
talked-of trials, lived in Knights-
bridge, a fashionable section of Eng-
land’s capital city.

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doners kept their carriages in rented
mews, which had living quarters for
their coachmen up above.

As motor cars started coming into
popular use, these buildings were
converted into fashionable flats, the
chauffeurs often occupying the
quarters formerly used by coachmen.

The rents of some of these con-
verted coach-houses were very high.

No. 12 Williams Mews was rented
by Mrs. Barney, a woman of early
middle age and a grass widow. She
was not lonely, however, as her boy

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