Judgment was entered for the defendants, Tillotsons’ Newspapers Ltd., in a case at Bolton (England) last month in which they were sued by Thornes Smith, hairdresser, for alleged libel arising out of a report of a case at the Bolton Borough Police Court. Smith, who was ordered to pay maintenance arrears to his wife, was unable to And the money, and was sentenced to 24 days in default. About half-an-hour afterwards, he found the money, and was released. On the same evening he read a report in the Bolton Evening News, headed “Prison for Hairdresser.” Actually, Smith was taken down to the cells before the money was paid, and the Judge intimated that this could be taken to mean being in prison.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 February 1932, Page 9
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