THE CRIPPEN SENSATION.
LE NEVK ACQUITTED. AN EDITOR FINED. London, October 25. The girl Ethel Le Neve has been acquitted on the charge of being an accessory after the fact in connection with the murder of Mrs Crippen. Ethel Le Neve was charged with assisting Crippen to escape, having a guilty knowledge and guilty intentions. Mr Smith, appearing for the accused, contended that the prosecution had not proved the girl’s “guilty knowledge,” and he did not call evidence. The jury, after a brief absence, returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr Robert Donald, editor of the Daily Chronicle aud Lloyd’s Weekly News, was charged with contempt of court iu publishing the statement that Crippen had confessed. Mr Donald was proved to have been away on a holiday when the statement appeared, but the Court lined Mr Perriss, the assistant editor of the Chronicle, /,200 and costs. The Hon. Mr Justice Darling said that the publication was calculated to prejudice the trial, aud it was grave contempt to publish idle gossip. He was not prepared to substitute trial by newspaper for trial by jury.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 910, 27 October 1910, Page 3
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183THE CRIPPEN SENSATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 910, 27 October 1910, Page 3
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