Mrs. Byrd was questioned about another pupil, who had said he was beaten by her husband, with long pauses between strokes. She said that when the boy had been in the preparatory school he once made for her with a knife.
She denied that her husband had struck another pupil several heavy blows in the face when a plan to steal petrol was discovered.
A headmistress
Cross-examined by Mr. George Polson, Q.C., for the prosecution, Mrs. Byrd said that before going to Cholderton she had been a headmistress of a boarding school in Suffolk. She was an associate of the Royal Society of Health and had attended London University. She was a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music.
