VICTIM OF A GIRL'S HALLUCINATION
RETIRED ARMt COLONEL PROSECUTRIX By Telegraph—Prest Association -Conrrieht . "Tlo«" Mi Sydney "Run" Serriwe. , Lonfon, May 25). Colonel Charles Gardiner, a- retired Army officer, has been the subject of, a prosecution at Brighton for midiem-oily publishing a. defamatory libel concerning Kathleen O'Brien, q, governess. When Colonel Gardiner was charged to-day, counsel for tlio prosecution informed the Magistrates that tliere was not a single particle <jf. reliable evidence against the accused. & «®s convinced that the girl had actually written the letters herself. At tlio eleventh, hoar a; gentleman had given information ivhioli showed slio was apparently sTtfierim: from, mental •dorange&cat; iief. disease involving a.dual personality. She might write letters to herself, yet when she received them she had no hneiv'w!ge that she wrote them. Colonel Gardiner was, elisclmrged without a. stain upon his character.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2164, 1 June 1914, Page 8
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137VICTIM OF A GIRL'S HALLUCINATION Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2164, 1 June 1914, Page 8
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