GROSS CHARGES.
COMPANY'S ACTION. TYPIST AWARDED £250. "FILTHY ANONYMOUS LETTER" (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, December 1. Miss Elizabeth Pearson, shorthandtypist, trying to obtain a post in a bank, was turned down because of what her firm told the bank. Her firm had
acted on what was described at Leeds Assizes as "a filthy anonymous letter."
Miss Pearson, of Moorland View, Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire, suing her firm, Low rock and Sons, of Linton Mills, Linton-in-Craven. for libel, was awarded £-•>" damages, with costs. 4? agreement. Mr. Willoughby Jardine, K.C., announcing the settlement of the action, said that in April, when Miss Pearson was employed by Lowcock and Sons, ''a filthy anonymous letter." addressed to her, was put in the firm's letter-box. It never reached her, but was read and acted upon by the firm. They made the grossest charges against her character and wrote unfavourably of her to the bank. As soon as the firm realised the true position they explained to the bank, and the bank knew now that Miss Pearson had an unblemished character.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 302, 21 December 1937, Page 9
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