SCHOOL TEACHER'S CLAIM.
THE GISBORNE CASE. ADMISSIONS BY PLAINTIFF. (By Telegmph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Thursday. Tlie case of the teacher. Ivy Bell Carr, against Lionel George Clare, merchant, for £>000 damages for alleged criminal assault, was continued to-day before Sir John Salmond and a common jury. Under examination, plaintiff admitted that she went to the raves the day after the alleged assault. She did not inform the police nor call in a doctor. She admitted writing to a cook named Thomson at Frasertown, asking him for £40, and hinting that she was going for a divorce. She said that before the alleged assault, Thomson had hinted that Rhe should obtain a" divorce. The defence alleged that the case had been brought because money could not be got out of Clare. In the box defendant admitted that Mrs. Carr was at his home on two occasions, when his wife wae away. He denied all her allegations of criminal assault. The case is not yet concluded.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 8
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163SCHOOL TEACHER'S CLAIM. Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 8
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