A PECULIAR CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 159, 22 November 1912, Page 5

A PECULIAR CASE.

AN UNFORTUNATE EDITOR. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, November 20. With regard to the sentence of a year's imprisonment on Arnold, editor of the Burma!) Critic, last mouth for alleged libel, Truth states that the officer concerned was an Australian named H. B. McCormick, who holds the Distinguished Service Order, but is now a rubber planter at Victoria Point. McCormick admits having paid the girl's mother thirty rupees and having adopted the girl, who was twelve years of age. hoping to cure her of a disease. She afterwards lived at his bungalow for three months. Mr. Andrew, the magistrate at Mergui, decided that the charges of abduction and rape were trumped up by MeCormick's enemies, and that his real motives were philanthropic. Clianning Arnold, who is the late Sir Edwin Arnold's son, alleged that Andrew was a friend of MeCormick's, and that the whole enquiry was irregular. Truth demands that Lord Crewe should immediately revise the sentence. It says that Arnold's language had been too unrestrained, but he had rendered a public service.