MR. DOHERTY AGAIN.
(PBB PRESS AGENCY.) Blenheim, Saturday. The case of Earle against Doherty, which came before the magistrate yesterday 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 I 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 with respect to your niece, I shall not touch on your motive for your con duct, 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 to her a sum, the interest on which will be sufficient to keep her until she gets married, after which both 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 foresee the complete wiping out of the Earle estate in Blenheim. My next attack will be in your rear. So 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.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5706, 14 July 1879, Page 2
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246MR. DOHERTY AGAIN. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5706, 14 July 1879, Page 2
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