DISTRICT COURT.
[I PBBPBBSS ASSOOIATIOM j i Hawbba, February 6. In the District: Court the second tjal of William Holmes, for indecent eault, ended in an acquittal. In a Ik'l case, Mo-rissey v. Quin, the jury fund for defendant with costs against fcintiff. Defendant and his friends Id for some months at frequent inwvals received anonymous letters of a jthy character, and hi eventually froteto plaintiff accusing her of bsing ae author, following this up with a jjjtter to her father. In the box plaintiff denied all knowledge of the anonymous letters. Tbe publication of the libel was admitted, but the jury found ilhat defendant had written the letter I which the judge held to b* privileged bo plaintiffs father.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 32, 7 February 1902, Page 2
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120DISTRICT COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 32, 7 February 1902, Page 2
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