THE LILLYWHITE CASE.
It is announced, writes the London correspondent to the Post, that the Home Secretary, Mr C. T. Ritchie, was applied to by the Colchester Town Council as to what was the host thing they could do in regard to expenses in the circumstances of having brought Mr Charles Lillywhite from New Zealand on the supposition that he was Arthur Blatch, the murderer of Mr Welsh, at Colchester. The Secretary replied that in the circumstances it would meet the case if they defrayed the expenses in full. The Daily News comments strongly on the unfairness of tho law which denies to an innocent man subjected to such treatment compensation for what he has undergone, and adds—“ This second instance of the invidious treatment of an innocent man under suspicion of crime, strengthens our point that it is time some system of compensation existed for wrongs committed in tho name of the law.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 October 1901, Page 4
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154THE LILLYWHITE CASE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 October 1901, Page 4
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