JURY DISAGREES.
■ —4 IN CURATE'S LIBEL ACTIOS. By Telegraph 1 1 rc- s s Associcition-^Oopyrt-Elit London, November 20. The Lord Chief Jtistieo, Sir Rufiis Isaacs, in summing up iji the libel action instituted by tho Rev. Tlios. Ghent, curate of St, Andrew's, ,Stockwell, against one Fitzgerald, a police* sergeant, for alleged, slander by the latter's wife-, said that if Ghent was right then tho allegations were a nicked fabrication of the result of a neurotic woman's hallucinations. If the defend* ant Was right-, then Ghent was a wicked, hypocritical liar of the vorst description. After twice retiring the jury disagreed, and was discharged. , Th£ Rev. Thomas Ghent, curate of St. AAdcews Church, StockweH, was at ofie Mine Tesidefit in Otago, being foF two years,clergyman at Clyde (states a Press Association message from lhinedin). He is -described as Behiga peculiarly hotheaded individual. He eventually made an exchange of tmlpits with a minister in Victoria, and loft tho Dominion,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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157JURY DISAGREES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1913, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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