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DAMAGES FOR LIBEL

.£lOOO AWARDED LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS. London, November 28. The jury awarded Lord Alfred Douglas 411000 damages, and expressed the opinion that the original of tho Wilde letters should be destroyed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Lord Alfred Douglas sued tho “Evening News” for libel in connection with an obituary notice published after his death had been untruly reported. The newspaper’s notice said: "A brilliant but unhappy career has ended. There were marked signs of degeneracy in tho house of Douglas, many members of which were eccentric." Mr. Cornyns Carr, Lord Alfred Douglas’s counsel, refused, to put the plaintiff in tho box, saying that old matters would be raked up. The defence then read an extraordinary scries of letters between Oscar Wilde and Lord Douglas, most of which had been published already in the course of earlier lawsuits in which Ixird Douglas was concerned. Lord Douglas constantly interrupted, and finally Dlr. Cornyns Carr asked permission to put him in tho box, and tho Judge permitted him to give evidence. He stated that he was now ashamed of tho letters which he had written, as they were disgraceful.]

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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 56, 30 November 1921, Page 5

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DAMAGES FOR LIBEL Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 56, 30 November 1921, Page 5

DAMAGES FOR LIBEL Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 56, 30 November 1921, Page 5

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