LIBELLING A DOCTOR.
JAMES REGAN PLEADS GUILTY,
HAD BELIEVED ASYLUM ATTENDANTS.
(Per Piess Association.) Auckland,' last night.
At the Police Court to day James Regan, owner and publisher of the weekly paper called Saturday Night, published in Auckland, pleaded guilty to a charge of crimiaal libel in publishing two articles in February nfleeting on the conduct and administration by Dr Btattie, of the Avondale M.ntal Hospia 1 , Auckland Defendant later published a complete apology, and withdrew all cha-gas, and Dr Beattie on oath said be was satisfi-d wilh the apology, but in the publ’c interact the prosecution was brought. It appears that defendant had received a written statement from attendants at the asylum, who have been discharge l . Defendant was committed for sentence to the j Supreme Court,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1709, 27 March 1906, Page 2
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