APRIL - Ern Malley: Letter from the Crown Solicitor, 1944

COPY Crown Solicitor's Office, 24 Flinders Street, DCW:BJK Adelaide. 4th September, 1944. Messrs Cleland, Teesdale Smith & Harris, Solicitors, Eagle Chambers, Pirie Street, Adelaide. Dear Sirs, re Police v. M.H.Harris. I am in receipt of your letter of the 1st September herein asking for particulars. The following sentences or passages will be relied upon by the prosecu- tion:- 1. Sweet William - P.11, first 9 lines, more particularly lines 4 - 9 (both inclusive.) 2. Boult to Marina - P.12, first 6 lines, more particularly lines 5 and 6: and last 6 lines. 3. Night Piece - P.15, The whole. 4. Night Piece (Alternative Version) - P.19. The whole. 5. Perspective Lovesong - P.21, third and fourth verse. 6. Egyptian Register - P.25, lines 14 and 15. P.26, last 2 lines. 7. Young Prince of Tyre - P.27, lines 5 and 6 of last verse. P.28, first 4 lines of last verse. 8. The Fence - The following sentences on page 41, "You can finish up and get the bloody hell off my place." "Bugger the work". "You can stick the money". "By Christ", he said. Then "Christ a man ought to have a crack at you."' 9. You Call me by my Proper Name - The two versions of page 62. 10. I have Never Spoken of Your - Page 67 - the whole. Page 64, the pas- Nakedness sage concerning "You men", she said' and ending "It's all right for men. It's dif- ferent for girls." 11. The Legend of the Little Death - Page 67, the whole. 12. The Journey North - Page 69, lines 8-11 (both inclusive) of the first verse. 13. Myself and the New Year, 1944 - P.80, part 111, last verse commencing "From the mother's womb...." 14. The prosecution does not propose to rely upon anything in "Elegiac for Ern Malley"; this was included in error in the list of printed matters which are alleged to be an indecent advertisement. Yours faithfully, A.J.HANNAN, Crown Solicitor.