"THE TRIAD" LIBEL CASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 68, 23 March 1915, Page 7

"THE TRIAD" LIBEL CASE.

j n. BAEYERTZ SUES FO.: DAMAGES. ' I United Buebb Association. Sydney, March 22. Hilaries Xalcier Baeyertz, editor of j io iriad, is suing the proprietors of me Theatre Magazine for £IOOO dailies [.„• alleged libel,, contained in a paragraph referring to plaintiff’s . iliiil criticism of .Elsie Spain. liie plaintiff contends that tlie paragraph nferred that he was a German, and riieiefore disloyal and unworthy oi rust and confidence, whereby the plaintiff was injured in credit and "e----mtation. The defendants plead not guilty. Baeyertz submits that the alleges tnd was contained in ' the following, ju agr. ph: “That unconscious conn •• ,i.in°of culture, C. N. Itoeyortz, m•uses Elsie Spain of making ‘ers’ oi all her ‘ors.’ This is very painful and ■idiculoas. It is strange that * I - >l 1 riaeyertz, of all .people, should lodge he complaint, as he suffers in spelbng ,iiat he alleges of the English girl in i K . song.” Plaintiff’s counsel stated hat early in 1911 the plaintiff came to jvdney to arrange for the inblicv.tii n if an edition of the Triad, hut tin ovoject was suspended owing to the var The Theatre Magazine attacked plaintiff personally, affording, evidence d malice. Plaintiff conte ided that ds criticism of Elsie Spain \ as not injection:!hie. His ancestry was lieljjian, and there was no suggestion of German blood in his veins. He object'd to the called “Herr Baeyertz,”. and dated that he had suffer'd considerhly thereby. The case is part heard.