SLANDER ACTION
Telegraph--Per Press Association.) DUNEDN, August 14. Judgment by confession for £3OO was entered against Abraham Lind in the Magistrates Court this morning in an action for slander brought against him by Ernest Goodall and Prudence Alice Goodpll. 'l'he action arose from tbe publication of a pamphlet when Lind was released "from prison last year after serving a term for indecent assault. In this pamphlet according to a statement of claim, defendant inferred that the plaintiffs criminally conspired to induce Hilclah Goodall, their daughter, to give a false testimony against Lintl on his trial. She received money from the police for inducing her to give false testimony and endeavouring to obtain further money from plaintiff for having persuaded her to give such false testimony. Lind was formerly an evangelist and the girl Goodall attended his meetings. A printer named George Cooper was joined as defendant in the slander action as having published the pamphlet, but it was announced he had settled his action.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1930, Page 5
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