ALLEGED PERJURY
SECOND-HAND DEALER PROSECUTES.
[Peb United Piiess Association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, March 14.
A private prosecution on a charge of perjury was heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The prosecutor was Ernest M‘Donald, who accused Lena Cox, a married woman, of committing perjury during the hearing of a case in which M'Donald was competed of a breach of the Secondhand Dealers Act for purchasing a ring from Mrs Cox Having lost his license, M’Donald claimed that he merely sold on commission, and obtained signed authority from the defendant, who signed his book in the name of Mrs Clark, Peacock street, Mrs Cox denied signing, and a charge of perjury was the result. The case is proceeding.
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Evening Star, Issue 16992, 14 March 1919, Page 4
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115ALLEGED PERJURY Evening Star, Issue 16992, 14 March 1919, Page 4
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