CRIMINAL LIBEL CASE.
PEE .PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, May 22. James Regan, newspaper proprietor, was sentenced to a month, without hard labour, on ti charge of criminally libelling Dr Beattey, Superintendent of tho Auckland Mental Hospital. Mr Justice Chapman gave full weight to tho fact that prisonor had been misled by a plausible person and that an ample apology had been published, but the only punishmont suitable for a libel of such a gross character was imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8117, 23 May 1906, Page 2
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76CRIMINAL LIBEL CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8117, 23 May 1906, Page 2
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