Evening star., 1925-11-30
HAREM IN BRITAIN
CHARGED BY GIRLS
Brother of Derby Winner
Owner Is Accused in Sen.
sationaI Case.

BY Cable 90 The Star and New York World.
LONDON. November 30.-Sensa-
tlonal allegations of the maintenance
If regular 'harem" of pretty girls
at wealthy mans country mansion
and OF systenatized plan for obtain.
ing fresh recruits" of tender years
viii he made when Hayley Morriss,
wealthy merchant of Pippingford
Park. Ccktield, SUSSEX, and his wife
previously known as his housekeep.
erl come up for trial AZ Lewis Assizes
commencing December ..
The ease has provided the most SEN
@ational trial Britain has had for
many years.
The social status OF Jfayley Murriss
~ greatly enhanced. in British "piu-
ion. BY the fact that be happens 10
pc brother of IL L. Morriss, mil
tcnaire Far Eastern merchant who
owned Mama, winner of this year
Derby.
Hayley Morriss, relatively unknown
six months ago, achieved fame
through his brothers success in the
great British turf event, but even had
Mamma never existed the doings at
Pippingford Park would have earned
hin notoriety. 4,
Repufed We3Ithy
Haviey MorriSs. The principal de
PENDANT i'll the LewcS AsSizc Court
drama, IS 81 years old and is reputed
90 hc enormously wealthy. The de-
feHse deny this. His wife, who Is
only - Ecars old, was known, ut the
Tine the warrant for her arrest was
issued, as Mrs. Madeleine Roberts IA
stage name, aud she l>>.- ACTING for
more than year aS Morriss' house
keeper at Pippiugford Park Addi-
ttonai sensation was given to the case
when the couple got married while on
bail during the preliminary Police
Court hearings.
Although the newspa pers carefully
re1ralned from meJ tioning the fact at
the time, 1t IS ell known tenet of
English law that : wife cannot testify
against her husba ID, and from d let
ter read at the Preliminary hearing
tsignature not made public. but IN
doubtedly that of Mrs. Morriss before
nor marriage) ii is suggested that
MorrisS robbed the prosecution Of an
important witness by marrying his
houSekeeper.
he charge against Morriss and his
wife IS on eight counts. 1t is under
the criminal law amendment act"
and specifies procuring or causing 10
he procured for immoral purposes
girls under the legal age of consent"
Wife's Sister Witness.
Additional sensation was provided
by the allegation that two of Mrs
Morrfss' younger sisters were among
Morriss victims, and one of them. a
pretty girl of r5. was among the wit
nesSeS called by the prosecution.
The testimony given at the prelim-
mary hearings was al much tho
same The girls, - and IL years old.
answered advertisements for arlor
maid, kennel maid or other domestic
positions at PippingforJ Park and
were engaged by Mrs. Roberts"
Mrs. Morrissi, who sometimes added
that she wanted them as companions.
The advertisements, or requests to
employment Offices. never gave the
name and address of Morriss and the
Pippingford Park estate was never
mentioned until the applicants had
been seen by Mr.. and Mrs. Morriss.
1t was alleged that careful inquiries
We're made by Mrs. Morriss as to the
family connections of the girls. and
that her youth and beauty was used
20 impress anxious mothers who
might otherwise have objected to
their girls going to a bachelor estab
iishment.
For the defense, however, il WaS
pleaded that there was no objection
10 the mothers going down 10 Pip
pingford Park on one occa sion a
girl selected for a. domestic job spent