CURATE'S LIBEL SUIT.
POLICE SERGEANT'S CHARGE. LONDON", November 20. MurJi public interest i* being evinced in ;>- liliel action, which has dragged on for in days, brought by the Rev. Thorn.-.-. Ghent, curate of St. Andrew's. Stockvell. against Serjreant Fitzgerald, of the I'lapham police. The latter is said to have gone to the vestry and maintained that Mr Ghent had committed misconduct with Mrs Fitzgerald, who was an active chi'.reh worker. Mr li'iient was employed in Australia and New Zealand from ISPO to lS9(i. Mrs Fitzgerald, who is 50 years of a«e. in the witness-box admitted misconduct during a juoible sale. Other witnesses stated that Fitzgerald had previously swc-used another curate at Poplar of a similar offence. This curate was acquitted after a bishop's inquiry. Mr (rlient. in his evidence yesterday, accused the police sergeant of blackmailing.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 5
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