RACING SENSATION
CAPTAIN PEEL'S SENTENCE.
WAR HERO’S LAPSE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, March 14.
Thera was a fashionable crowd in tho court to witness the end of tho Peel case.
After evidence for the prosecution had concluded, Mr Justice Darling said that the doctrine of coercion went back to the times of Canute, but it was no longer in accordance with the facts of life. It was absurd to say now that a woman dare not contradict her husband. Nevertheless ho was hound to apply the doctrine to Mrs Peel.
With a happy smile the accused tripped out of tho dock, and took a seat beside her father and mother, Sir Robert and Lady Jardine, while her husband was brought into the dock. Several officers gave evidence of Captain Peel’s bravery, stating that he captured six Germans single-handed. Mr Justice Darling said that the fraud placed Captain Peel outside the pale of a gentleman. It was right that his punishment, direct and indirect, should be heavier than that of poor people, as ho was under no real temptation.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 5
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