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* ' SIR MICHAEL O'DWYER LIES PARALYSED. i (by CABLE —PRE3B ASSOCIATION COPXaiOHI.) (Sydney "Sun" Servics.) LONDON, June 8. Tho newspaper "People" says that Bir Michael O'Dwyer, former Lieut.Governor of the Punjab, has been vindicated too late. He suffered a nervous breakdown and was stricken with paralysis in 1921, and now lies at his home in Bristol, nursed by his devoted wife. He is too ill to be told or Mr Justice McCardie's pronouncement, as such excitement would prove fatal. His Anglo-Indian sympathisers, before he broke down, subscribed £20,D00 and purchased a secluded Wiltshire farm for him. [Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who was born in 1864, was LieutenantGovernor of the Punjab when the Amritsar atfair occurred, lhe vindication referred to wa3 the_ comment by Mr Justice McCardie, in giving judgment for Sir Michael O'Dwyer, in"® recent libel action: "In my opinion he waa wrongly punished _by the Secretary of Estate for India."]
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 7
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