A STRANGE DISEASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 33, 30 May 1914, Page 6

A STRANGE DISEASE.

(By Electric Tbl»«*aph—JDopy right j i Times and Sydney'Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, May 29. Colonel Charles Gardiner, a retired army officer, was prosecuted-at Brighton for maliciously publishing a defamatory libel concerning Miss Kathleen O’Brien, a governess. Colonel Gardiner has made several appearances on the charge, and today counsel for the prosecution informed the Magistrates that there was not a single particle of reliable evidence against the accused. They were convinced the girl had actually written the letters to herself, and at the eleventh hour the gentleman had given information which showed that she had apparently been- suffering from mental derangement, in the form of a disease involving dual personality. She might write letters to herself, and yet when she received them she had no knowledge she wrote them. Colonel Gardiner was discharged without a stain on his character.