SIEVIER AND JOEL.
ACCUSED ACQUITTED. (11l TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COriUIGHT.) , London, July 30. In the case against It. S. Sievier, charged by J. B. Joel with using threats to publish defamatory mattor with intent to extort money, . The Lord Chief Justico, Lord Alvorstone, in summing up, commented on tho conflict-' ing nature of the evidence, and left the jury to decide whether Sievier had attempted to extort money within the meaning of the Act. 1 If Joel had been seeking to obtain, through Mills, a promise from Sievier to abstain from publishing libels, that was not extorting money. ' - . ' The jury acquitted Sievier. Thore was a great demonstration in favour of' Sievier in the Court and in tho surrounding streets.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 265, 1 August 1908, Page 5
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