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GET THEIR DESERTS, Received 13th. 9.35 p.m. London, Juns 12, Robert Simeon and William MeDougall were sentenced to live, years' peial servitude at Edinburgh for conspiracy to defraud Glasgow newspapers, by inducing them to publish bogus telegrams describing Simpson's Arrest for murder. They had proceeded to claim damages from the newspapers after publication. Joseph Ferguson and John Stewar were acquitted.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 June 1907, Page 2
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64THE LATEST LIBEL PROMOTERS Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 June 1907, Page 2
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