A WOMAN'S MALICE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 886, 4 August 1910, Page 5

A WOMAN'S MALICE.

SPREADS-LIBELS BROADCAST. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. ' London, August 2. After a trial lasting four days Annie Tugwell, wife of the Registrar of Births at Sutton, Surrey, .was sentenced ■to twelve months' imprisonment for libelling Canon Cafferata, a Catholic priest, i'and others, whom she accused of gross immorality. From the evidence in the lower court, it appears that Mrs. Tugwell circulated ■through "the posr letters of a highly and offensive character concerning tho Canon and his housekeeper Quantities of these letters were sent abroad to persons in the neighbourhood, and, in order to detect the sender, the police, who suspected Mrs. Uugwell, I secured a number of chemically-treated stamps. It was known where the lugwells purchased their stamps, ami so these half-penny stamps were handed to tho sub-postmaster with instructions that they were to be sold only to members of tho Tugwell household. Tho stamps were all eventually recovered on the libellous letters dispatched, and blottin" paper was found in tho Tugwell home on which could bo traced the words in the letters. Mrs. Tugwcll also- wrolo letters to herself, and took them to tho post office' with complaints as to how she was being pestered.