CONTEMPT OF COURT.
MINISTER SENT TO PRISON. Received March 15, 11.37 p.m. ~°* MELBOURNE, March 15. The Rev. P. J. Murdoch, clerk of the South Melbourne Presbytery, has been committed to prison for contempt of court in refusing to produce the copy of a letter sent by the Presbytery to defendant in the action Rev. Donald versus Robert Harper, Member of the House of Representatives. Murdoch insisted that he had sworn to keep all documents of the Presbyery, and would not give them up without the Presbytery's authority.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 16 March 1909, Page 5
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87CONTEMPT OF COURT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 16 March 1909, Page 5
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