THE TIMES.
25th June, 1930
COURT OPENING , June 1930
The June session of the Central Criminal Court was opened by the Lord Mayor (Sir William Waterlow) at the Sessions House, Old Bailey, yesterday. The Lord Mayor was attended by the Sword Bearer, Mace Bearer, and City Marshal. On the Bench at the opening of the session were Alderman Sir Kvnaston Studd, the Recorder of London (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.), Mr. Alderman and Sheriff W. Phene Neal, Major and Sheriff F. H. Bowater, Mr. Under-Sheriff W. H. Champness, and Mr. Acting Under-Sheriff Sparks.
Mr. Justice Macnaghten will attend the Court to-morrow to begin the trial of cases in the Judge's list. The RECORDER, in the course of his charge to the Grand Jury, said the calendar contained the names of 109 persons. He regretted to say that although the interval between the beginning of the last session and the present had been five weeks, this was an exceptionally heavy calendar. There were six charges of murder, four of manslaughter, one of infanticide, two of attempted murder and nine of bigamy. Unfortunately there was the usual number of Post Office cases.
The RECORDER, addressing Mr. Eustace Fulton, one of the Senior Counsel to the Treasury, as representing the Bar, said that since the Court last met there was a vacant place caused by one of those tragedies which appeared to human understanding so unnecessary. Snatching a well-earned few days' vacation, there died, in most distressing circumstances, their dear friend Henry Roome. He was a distinguished Oxford scholar. He was almost at the zenith of his forensic career. He had been a Treasury counsel since 1920. He was a painstaking editor of Archbold. As they all knew, he was an indefatigable-worker. He was a model to all prosecuting counsel, and they had lost a dear friend and the profit of a fine example. Mr.Eustace Fulton, on behalf of the Attorney-General and the Director of Public Prosecutions, associated himself in the Recorder's expressions of regret at the death of Mr. Roome.
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