CELEBRATED BLACKMAIL CASE.
CROSS-EXAMINING AND MUD THROWING. (By Electric Telegraph — Copynjrnt.) (Per Press Association.) , (Red 5.5 p.m.) ' london; Dec. 16. Countess Demanin, jn tihe' blackmail case iat the Bow Street t gave evidence. Glendinmng*~an"d Page demanded one. pounds, but evetualy reduced it to £400.
When cross-examined by counsel and aked if O'Connor was a very impecunions man, the countess replied tlhat he had £3,500 a year when she first knew him. He onightr have part of that now. ' ' ' The Magistrate later on being in-> terviewed said, that tha whole of 'the cross-examination was 'directed 'to mud-thfowing. I The counsel,, angrily dissented and a scene ensued, when the Magistrate ordered an adjournment. v
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Grey River Argus, 18 December 1911, Page 5
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