£300 FOE SLANDER
EX-EVANGELIST'S OFFENCE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DTJNEDIN, This Day.
Judgment by confession for •£3OO was entered against Abraham Lind in the Magistrate's Court this morning in an action for* slander brought against him by Ernest Gooclall and Prudenco Alice Goodall, • v-TJae action arose from the publication >.of a pamphlet when Lind was released from prison last year after serving a term for indecent assault. In this pamphlet, according to the statement of claim, the defendant inferred that the plaintiffs criminally conspired to induce Hildali. : Goodall, their daughter, to give false testimony against Lind on his trial, received money from the police for inducing her to give false testimony, and endeavoured to obtain further money from Parliament for having persuaded her to give such false testimony. Lind was formerly an evangelist, and tho girl Goodall attended his meetings. _■ A printer named George Cooper was joined as defendant in the slander action as having published the pamphlet, but it was announced that he had settled his action.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 39, 14 August 1930, Page 11
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167£300 FOE SLANDER Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 39, 14 August 1930, Page 11
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