AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
A>; EXPLANATION THAT WAS DUE. PECULIAR ACTS OF A DERANGED WOMAN. Times and Sydney Sim Services. London, May 20. Colonel Charles Gardiner, a retired Aiiny officer, wan prosecuted at Brighton fi>i' having !n!i!i('iou-:ly published a defamatory libel concerning Miss Kathleen O'Brien, a governess. Coloacl Gardincr had made several appearances o» tlio charge .
To-day, the counsel for the prosecution informed tho magistrates that he had not .a single particle of reliable evidence against accused. Ho was convinced that the girl had actually written the letters herself. At the eleventh hour a gentleman had given information which AoWUiat she was apparently suffering from mental derangement, the disease involving a dual personality. She might write letters to herself, yet when she received them have no knowledge that she had written them.
Colonel Gardiner was discharged without a stain on his character.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 11, 1 June 1914, Page 4
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142AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 11, 1 June 1914, Page 4
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