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Detective Inspector Winter is Unhappy
The police thought they had a pretty watertight case against Elvira Barney. However, she was found not guilty of either murder or manslaughter. The prosecution case had relied on the forensic and...
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Dorothy Hall’s Statement to the Police 2/6/1932
It is highly unlikely that Elvira gave even a passing thought to Dorothy Hall, mother of a small child and a chauffeur’s wife. Yet, had not Sir Patrick Hastings cast doubt on the accuracy of her...
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Kate Stevens’ Statement 3/6/1932
Following on from http://elvirabarney.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/dorothy-halls-statement-to-the-police-261932/ Kate Stevens lived one door down from Dorothy Hall so was a little bit further from 21...
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Sir Patrick Hastings,Tallulah Bankhead and Beatrix Lehmann
Elvira, we are told, kept a photograph of Tallulah Bankhead at her bedside while she was on remand in Holloway. Whether she was simply an adoring fan, like so many stage-struck young women of the...
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C.H.Rolph and Henry Cecil
For all the actors, photographers and generally arty types that Elvira mingled with on the evening leading up to the shooting, if it is authors that we are looking for then the representatives of Law...
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Hastings versus Spilsbury
All commentators agree that if it were not for Patrick Hasting’s performance in court Elvira would have almost certainly have been found guilty of murder or at least manslaughter. The general consensus...
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Some Observations on the Case of Mrs. Barney
At the end of a long and distinguished career, Sir Travers Humphreys wrote A Book of Trials (1953). He had been involved in some of the most celebrated trials in English history – Oscar Wilde, Roger...
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