NEWSPAPER REPORTS
COMPLAINT OF UNFAIRNESS “The newspaper reports of the police chase prior to my arrest were quite unfair to me,” said Ina Beatrice Wills, the accused, when giving evidence in the Supreme Court yesterday, in the charges of breaking, entering and theft against her. Mr. Justice Reed was of the opinion that the reports were sometimes unfair to the accused person. “A responsibility is thrown on the newspapers not to exaggerate in these cases, and there will be a big libel action one of these days,” he added. “Some of the comments,” *said Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, “were contempt of court.” Mr. Dickson quoted such phrases as “80 miles an hour,” and “woman’s mad drive in Epsom.” Some of the Christchurch papers had said the accused woman was found lying in the long grass.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 190, 1 November 1927, Page 9
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