GIRL TYPIST'S LIBEL ACTION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 7

GIRL TYPIST'S LIBEL ACTION

SYDNEY CAUSE CELEBRE

"A PAWN IN A GAME"

B« '•Mc.ciopli-l'rc.Hj AesociVition- Oonyr'Kht

(Rec. June 16, 11.15 p.hi.)

Sydney, Jmm l(s. . «e ease in which (iwciiceiine Browne, years of a&e, formcdy ii tyjiiste in the iirm ot Johti ilridge and claims £2000 onnipifnisatbii "ooi liionc! Bridge, liuinaguvg director of the Company, 'for alleged libel and ashpit, • was continued to-day. Tim , ? m ''fists on a letter written by tlio deteiidaui to the head of plaintiff's delitUtnwnt, oriluring him to dispoiise "ith her services for alleged acta of impropriety on the coinpaity's pte* uiises, ami eoiitttmirttious disregard lastrilctioiis.

feidenco was given by Littiiel, J. A. Bvidgo, defcnilant, in coutravcrsioii of the- 6(atcm<viits and deductions ttrawil b;T the phiitti/f and her witnesses. He d.ectercd tbut there \vas nothing in lviss miiid when lie wrote the letter an which tire action was founded? fxeept- the nWi'iitcuaMcfi of discipline, and the service of the cumpaiij-. ' lie admitted hnviit.K carried :he plaintiff (Browne) out, tat denied' havirtg used uniißcCßsary foree.

Evidence giveii during, tlie hearing of tho case' disclosed the fact that certain employees had been dismissed, or had somed tinur connection witli John Hficlge and. Company as the rcsuk of tho incident.

. PWiMfi} foir t-lie defence argued that •■-ft) r "' ,veKf lo Micro the plain- »!»•» «vidtei(de, they lmi.sl- conclude tlval the d&feitdanfc a. : nd the ca-direfctart of Bfldgo Mrd Company were guilty of iiabottQiii wieicodj'jtoss. He. charactprvfied one portion of Gweucltiliiie Browne's evi-denco-that. _ the defendant, in a eoflwith her, had s.ald that she 3n JKlrt have her Salary doubled if she adopted & suggestion which be made, to her—as ths> pure ini&g«ation of .a hystorioal tiii-i. Hp contended that Movnth, head_ of Miss Brdwae's department, Was iseekiiij* to relievo himself fro® ffc itulhority of the directors in connection with matters eoßcrmng his department. and had used the Browne iaeiforward hi? pretentions, - CciiiiSf-l for the plaintiff said thai, tire motives of the defendam in dismissing Hrowne wisre based on the fact thai she lWu spttrtted Ms overtures:, and, its a rej*e : £sfi,..;be had rcsftrtcri jttfd malice. Thefc svas also iii-fee'liwg lietffcci) the dsfeiidfliit and Mntrtthi aiui the dismissed gjr} would be the lire,ins _?[ checkmating and maitfns Morath bite UK! dust. Tl're girl was frfrfy a pawn Sit a- came. • Tli® case i* not finished,