A FULL APOLOGY
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day.
For' some months an objectionable character, a "Peeping Tom," has disturbed Otahuhu, with the consequence that innocent persons have . eon accused of being the undesirable one. The result was to have been a slander action this morning before Mr. Justice Herdman and a jury of twelve, but the defendant, Stephen Fearnley, publicly apologised to the plaintiff, Frank Burton Toms, in the Court. For the plaintiff, counsel stated that the defendant had been sprerding rumours identifying Toms with the objectionable individual. By submitting fingerprints to the police, who cr-upared them with those of the real party (still at large), Toms conclusively proved that he was not the guilty man. Fearnloy had therefore apologised unreservedly, and paid the plaintiff's costs and expenses. His counsel remarked that the defendant had acted without malice, and had foolishly repeated a rumour he had heard in the
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 9
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154A FULL APOLOGY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 9
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