EXTRAORDINARY LIBEL CASE.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAM.) NAPIER, September 12. The libel action of Pileher v the "Daily Telegraph," in which tlie plaii*..uT claims £1000 in connection with what is k_owii as "The inner harbour mystery," commenced at the Supreme Court to-day. Tho dead body of a woman, as yet unidentLSe.. enceinte, and with no clothing on, •"*»- found ia the harbour early in June. Plaintiff's case, which was finished to-day, ~ that certain articles in the paper allege.that Emily Pileher, daughter of the plaintiff, was the woman found; that she Tfiis enceinte to her father, and that he murdered her to hide the affair. The defe»« is a denial that any such meaning can bs attached to the article; that the comme_-t were justified by facts brought under the notice of the editor, and were in the publu interest. Malice is not alleged, counsel foi the plain-tiff expressly stating that no per sonal feeling was imputed to Mr Knowfe* proprietor of the "Telegraph." . . ;,
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10760, 13 September 1900, Page 6
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