IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER
India in April or May. In spite of her undertaking to keep
the boys separated from Leadbeater, the plaintiff has reason to
believe that after reaching England she took the boys to
Leadbeater in Italy and stayed with him for some weeks, thus
breaking her promises. The plaintiff submits that, having
regard to the filthy and unnatural habits, character and ante-
cedents of the said Leadbeater, it is extremely undesirable
that the boys should be allowed to associate with him, or that
he should be allowed to have access to them.
8. The defendant started for England about February
1912, but before she started she endeavoured to obtain evidence
that Leadbeater was not guilty of the act complained of, and
had a statement from her attendant, Luxman, recorded to
that effect, and sent a copy of the same to the plaintiff. The
plaintiff, on perusing this, wrote two letters to the defendant
on the 7th and 15th February 1912, pointing out that even
according to the statement aforesaid it was clear that Mr.
Leadbeater was seen half dressed in her room with Krishna-
murti. Before these letters reached the defendant she wrote
a letter to the plaintiff on February 7, 1912, from on board
steamer, in which for the first time she set up that plaintiff
has been ill-treating and starving his children. The plaintiff
submits that this is an impudent and malicious lie trumped
up by the defendant in view to further legal proceedings, as
would be seen from the fact that the plaintiff was all along
one of the ¢vusted members of the Theosophical Society and
the Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section
thereof, and was paying for the mess of the boys wherever
they were until November 1911. The defendant in that
letter also threatened that she would keep the boys in
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