Claim for Libel.
THE MEIKLE IMPRISONMENT. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. John Moikle, formerly of Southland, who petitioned Parliament claiming compensation and removal of his name front the prison records
ol the colony, he Having been wrongs fully imprisoned for seven years on a charge of sheep-stealing, to-day, I filed a writ against the New Zealand Times Company claiming £2OOO damages for libel.
The claim is based cm the contents of a letter signed C. D. R (Judge) Ward, published in tte Times on Dec. 12, which it i& alleged means that plaintld war habitually guilty of sheep stealing and was the ringleader of afi of sheep-stealers and had baaa Justly convicted of the crime ; <*fr plaintiff *£ted as an accomplice ot John Scott in defrauding Messrs Cars well and White and Copdin, stealing a horse from them ; add that plaintiff, realising that the theft was likely to be discovered treacherously determined to betray, and did betray Scott by giving evidence against him and falsely swearing to the Innocence ot himself and Macdonald.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 263, 22 December 1903, Page 2
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174Claim for Libel. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 263, 22 December 1903, Page 2
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