ALLEGED LIBEL.
(Per Press Association.)
Wellington, last night. John Meikle, formerly of Southland, whoso petitions to Parliament claiming compensation and the removal of bis name from tho prison records of the colony, he having wrongfully been imprisoned for sovon years on a charge of sheep eioaling, to-day filed a writ against the New Zealand Times Company, claiming £2OOO damages. The libel claim is based on the contents of a letter signed by C. D. R. (Judge) Ward, published in the Times on December 12tb, which it is allegod means that plaintiff was habitually guilty of "■-sheep-stealing, and was tho ringleader of - Q gang of sheep-stealers, and had boon -. us tly convicted for the crime ; that plaintiff acted as an accomplice of John Scott in defrauding Carswell, White and Co., Hud in stealing a horse from them, and that plaintiff, realising that tho theft was likely to bo discovered, treacherously determined to betray, and conspired with Macdonald to betray, and did betray, Scott by giving evidence against him, and A-iaaly swearing to the innocenco of himMorfonaß
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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1079, 22 December 1903, Page 3
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175ALLEGED LIBEL. Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1079, 22 December 1903, Page 3
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