DOHERTY AGAIN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 91, 15 July 1879, Page 3

DOHERTY AGAIN.

Doherty, whj gave tho Welling-40kiyi-3 < 'dv.oation Board great troi A .ble a year ago, found a comfortable bei'th at iilpinheini ; but seeing to be i.v hot water again, as will be seen \>y the follow irq Pi ess A gene." 1 ' telegvuis :— Elfnh^iai, Iridriv. Mr Doherty, JatQ a eel: ooi master at Wellington, held a mooting last night to refute slanders respecting • two girls. He attackod the Education .Board as a farce, and the School Committee, saying that they were political bodies, lie denounced Robinson, the secretary to the Board; Hodgson, the inspector; Fell, the chairman ', and the committee, &s a political party governed by a clique, who had forced him to resign. But all this was nothing to what followed. Having got the meeting with him, he proceeded, midst cheers and partial hisses, to read a series of letters between himself and the girls, ruak'ng accusations of a most filthy clntiav iev againso one man, guaidian of one of the girls. Protests were made by several persons, but they were hissed and hooted down. At the close of the proceedings Doherty was carried off his feet by an excited crowd of people cheering him. Doherty was subsequently arrested on a charge of sending intimidating letters demanding 'nioney from W. Earle. Tho letter was simply unspeakably disgusting, and asking for money to be settled on the girls, or he would expose and ruin Earle. He was brought before a bench of six magistrates this morning. The cisc was adjourned till 2 in the afternoon. Bail was accepted. The meeting was the largest ever held in Blenheim. Saturday. . The case of Earle against Doherty, which came before the Magistrate \esterday afternoon, was dismissed. After accusing Mr Earle of heinous crimes, the letter forming the basis of the charge, proceeds, ' : On Thursday night next I shall review the, persecution 1 have been subjected to in Blenheim through your rascality. With a little assistance from others, I am resolved to leave here with my name as untarnished as it was on my arrival. If you agree to my terms in respect to your niece, I shall not touch on your motive for your conduct, but merely require you to state that what you did was in order that you should not lose your niece, to whom you were greatly attached. My conditions are that you make over on her a sum, ihe interest on which will be sufficient to keep her •^yjmtil the gots married, after which Doth interest and principal will remain for her use during widowhood, or for her children in the event of her death. I give you until Monday to consider this. If you refuse, I shall bring about an exposure and a lawsuit, in which, I foreee the complete wiping out of the Karle estate in Blenheim. My next attack will be in your rear, feo you see I can still maintain my boast that no man ever meddles with me without coming to grief." Other proceedings are threatened on both sides.