A LIBEL ACTION.
£IOO AWARDED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Times Service)
(Received this day at 9.25. a.m.) LONDON, October 17. Justice Horridgo has awarded Lord
Alfred Douglas £100: damages against
Harrod’s, for a libel contained in V Frank Harris’s book “ Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confession,” a copy of which Harrod’s agent sold to plaintiff’s agent. Evidence was given that Douglas was happily married, and supplemented his private income by, authorship. The book frequently referred to plaintiff to whom it wrongly ascribed Wilde’s downfall, asserting that Lord Douglas left him in misery and starvation in Paris. Lord Douglas met * Harris at Cannes, after which they collaborated on a new preface, in which Harris withdrew the allegations. Hatreds had three copies of this preface when they sold the book, of which there was only one copy originally purchased at £l. It held up Lord Douglas to odium and contempt, whereas he had generously befriended Wilde.
.The jury suggested the destruction of the copies of the book produced in Court.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1928, Page 5
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169A LIBEL ACTION. Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1928, Page 5
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