SEQUEL TO LIBEL CASE.
'~'.'. HEAVY SENTENCES. " . 'By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright ■■" . ' "_ London,, February 25. In connection with tho Robinson libel case heard in November,- 1.011, Cohen was sentenced 'to, three-years' penal servitude for-subornation of tho witness Berger. ' Victor Woolf, a South African mining engineer, was soiiteiiced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for committing perjury during the.hearing of tho caso. In. November, 1911, Sir J. B. Eobinson, the houth African mine-owner and financier, recovered from Louis Cohen, •author of. thy book "Reminiscences of Kimberley," .£IOOO damages. In tho hook it was alleged that plaintiff's early career was that of a fraudulent dealer, swindler, •and coward. Emil James Berger, theatrical agent, was in June, 1912, sentenced to three years imprisonment on a charge of perjury . in,, testifying against' Sir J. B. Robinson .concerning an alleged incident In Kimberley in 1879..
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 7
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138SEQUEL TO LIBEL CASE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 7
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