GAOL FOR PERJURER.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17165, 23 March 1927, Page 3

GAOL FOR PERJURER.

-Press Association-

(Aaitralian and N.Z. Presu Aiaocistion.)

I SENSATIONAL CASE RECALLED.

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WASHlNGTON, March 21. One of the most interesting cases in American jurisprudence has just ended, wlien the Supreme Court decided that Earl Carroll, a noted iSnerican theatrical producer, must serve a year and a dag in the Atlanta penitentiary as the result of perjury arising out of a prohibition action. Carroll was charged with [giving a birthday party a year ago ; at a New York theafre at which a i nude chorus girl bathed in a bath | tub filled with champagne before invited guests. Prohibition officials prosecuted Carroll, but were unable to prove that the biath tub contained liquor. Carroll denied that the girl was in the bathtub, but this was proved. Carroll spent many thousands of dollars in carrying the case to the highest court in the land. His only hope now is that President Coolidge may grapt him a pardon.