REMARKABLE CASE
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS SUES “EVENING NEWS’’ FOR LIBEL A PREMATURE OBITUARY NOTICE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. November 25, 8.50 p.m.) London, November 24. Lord Alfred "Douglas is suing the “Evening News" for libel in connection with an obituary notice published after his death had been untruly reported. The newspaper’s notice said: “A brilliant but unhappy career has ended. There were marked signs of degeneracy in the house of, Douglas,, many members of which .were, eccentric." . -Mr. Cornyns Carr, Lord Alfred Douglas’s, counsel, refused to put the plaintiff in the box, saying that old matters would be raked up. The defenpe then read an extraordinary series-of letters-between Oscar Wilde and Lord Douglas, most of .which had been published already in the course of earlier, lawsuits in which Lord Douglas was concerned. Lord Douglas constantly interrupted, and finally Mr. Cornyns Carr asked permission to put him in the b<]x, and the Judge permitted him to give evidence. He stated that he was now ashamed of the ■ letters which h» had written, as they were disgraceful.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 7
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178REMARKABLE CASE Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 7
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