CURIOUS LIBEL ACTION.
•.■"temperance lecturer and BRANDY. (By Telegraph-Press Association Copyright) (Ike. Marcli 15, 7.15 p.m.) Sydney, March 15. Mrs. Barton, a tomperanco lecturer, has obtained a verdict for .£5 damages for libel against the newspaper "Fairplay," which stated that she had given a woman brandy. The plaintiff, on being cross-examined, said she could not givo a dying child, brandy, oven though instructed-to do so ,1 by a doctor. | Mr. Justice Pring declared that in that, case she would ba guilty of manslaughter. ■
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5
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83CURIOUS LIBEL ACTION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5
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