ALLEGED CRIMINAL ASSAULT
—4 DEFENCE ALLEGES BLACKMAIL. Gisborne, June 27. The case of the teacher, Ivy Bell Carr, against Lionel George Clare, merchant, for £5,000 damages for alleged criminal, assault, was continued to-day before Sir John Salmond, and a common jury. Under examination plaintiff admitted that, she went to the races the day after the alleged assault. She did not inform the police, nor call in a doctor. She admitted writing to a cook, named Thomson, at Frasertown, asking him for £4O, hinting that she was going for a divorce. She said that before the alleged assault Thomson had hinted that .-die should get a divorce. The defence alleged that the case had been brought because money could not be got out of Clare. lu the box, defendant admitted Airs Carr was at his home oil two occasions when his wife was away. He denied all her allegations of criminal assault?. The case has not yet concluded.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2751, 28 June 1924, Page 3
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157ALLEGED CRIMINAL ASSAULT Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2751, 28 June 1924, Page 3
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