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Floor captains and wine stewards the world over were invariably impressed with tall, greying, debonair, 58-year-old Norman Morton-Stewart. "His usual lunch bill was around ?18 ($50)," said an awed headwaiter in Birmingham last week. Even Norman's pretty young (29) wife, whom he invariably introduced as "Lady Barbara," was overawed by her husband, the manager of a local travel bureau, and also somewhat vague about the source of his wealth. "He used to tell me he had inherited a huge fortune in America from an uncle," she said. "His father was a very...
...months ago, Barbara Morton-Stewart began to get a broader insight into her husband's nature and finances when he suddenly vanished from Birmingham, leaving her with a large staff of unpaid servants, a mountain of unpaid bills, and a tender note saying: "My darling Baba, I shall always love you. I am terribly sorry...
...MORTON JOHN BARNARD...
...woman, Mrs. Virginia Morton, 42, was dead. But the man, a wiry, sandy-haired fellow of 39, was alive. Presently he moaned, sat up and became a suffering human again. In pain, in fear, in sorrow, he told a story the cops had already guessed. His name was Noble-Francis R. Noble-and he had lived with the woman for years. He loved her, he said. But they had been beaten by the huge and faceless city...
...autopsy had revealed that Virginia Morton had died in the night of a heart attack and that her body bore no signs of strangulation. It was the opinion of the examiner that the defendant had never brought himself to commit the deed he thought he remembered. Said the judge: "You are free...