Affair of Honor

An insurance broker of Lloyds who took up motor racing as a hobby and became Britain's popular "Speed King" is ruddy and rambunctious Sir Malcolm Campbell. Last week high-speed Sir Malcolm's divorce suit against Lady Campbell set a new low in Mayfair muckraking.

Sir Malcolm produced a pert blonde housemaid named Joy Higginson to swear she once abruptly entered the ballroom of his house to see Lady Campbell and a Mr. Bruce Keith "embracing as lovers" on a sofa.

Sir Malcolm produced a shriveled, 64-year-old soothsayer named Thelma Harrison to swear that she had acted as housekeeper of a town flat and a country cottage used by Lady Campbell and another corespondent, Mr. Brian Lewis, son of Shipping Tycoon Lord Essenden.

When Mr. Lewis testified that he was unable to remember the exact date on which he first committed adultery with Lady Campbell, her 21-year-old son Douglas burst into loud guffaws. Lady Campbell accused her husband of taking Son Douglas on a round of houses of ill fame and of boasting that he--Sir Malcolm Campbell--had seduced a tea-shop waitress. Lady Campbell said that her husband once showed to their grown daughter a family heirloom, an obscene antique watch inside the case of which two nude figures embraced.

Sir Malcolm Campbell, who was wearing in court the uniform of a Royal Air Force captain, sat down and wept with his hands over his face. As Mr. Douglas Campbell began to weep too, Lady Campbell shrieked at Sir Malcolm & son: "Don't you gloat over me!"

The Speed King testified that Lady Campbell had been unfaithful for as long as twelve years, and her lawyer asked Sir Malcolm if this were not with his consent. "No!" snapped the Speed King. As the trial proceeded Lady Campbell withdrew charges that Sir Malcolm had misconducted himself with a Mrs. Atherton who in court last week said she only consented to appear in order to preserve the honor of Mr. Atherton.

Evidence in, the court lost little time giving the Speed King a divorce on grounds of his wife's misconduct.

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