SENT TO PRISON.
SANCTITY OF DOCUMENTS. PRODUCTION OF A LETTER REFUSED. COURT OR PRESBYTERY? (nr TELEGRAPH—rrtESS ASSOCIATION—COrrKICIIT.) (Rec. March io, 11.13 p.m.) Molbournc, March 15. The Rev. P. J. Murdoch, clerk of the South Melbourne Presbytery, litis been committed to prison for contempt of Court, in refusing to produco a copy of a letter sent by the Presbytery to the defendant in tho action, tho Rev. Ronald versus Robert Harper, a member of tho House of Representatives. Mr. Murdoch insisted that he had sworn to keep all the documents of the Presbytery. He could not, therefore, give them up without the Presbytery's authority.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 457, 16 March 1909, Page 5
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103SENT TO PRISON. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 457, 16 March 1909, Page 5
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