CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1913, Page 7

CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY

SEQUEL TO LIBEL CASES. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received October 28, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 27th October. ( Mr. Louiß Cohen, author of "Reminiscences of Kimberley," has bee^ arrested on a charge of conspiring with Emil Berger in connection with libels on Sir J. B. Robinson in 1911 and 1912. [In November, 1911, Sir J. B. Robinson, the South African mineowner and financier, recovered £1000 damages from Mr. Cohen and £1000 .from Mr, Bennett, publisher of Mr. Cohen' 8 book, which alleged that plaintiff's early career was that of a fraudulent dealer, swindler, and coward. Sir J. B. Robinson, in his evidence, said he had~ lost his hearing through exposure on Basuto battlefields. He had contributed £1000 to assist the British in the war against the Boers, and £80,000 after the restoration of peace. He denied Cohen's allegations. Cohen said that Robinson's reputation in South Africa was that of a liar and coward, a betrayer of women, and an illicit diamond buyer. In June of the following year, Emil James Berger, an impressario, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude on a charge of perjury in testifying against Sir J. B. Robinson concerning an alleged- incident in Kimberley in 1879. Berger stated that in that year he knew Robmson, whose reputation was not of the highest! He remembered Robinson coming into a bar at Kimberley, when he (Berger) talked with him about the sale of some coffee. Berger added that he then told Robinson that he could not "have" him as he had "had" the Boers, by putting peebles at tho bottom of the bag. To this Robinson had replied that he would do as he pleased.]