THE RUSSELL LIBEL CASE.

Hastings Standard, Issue 217, 11 January 1897, Page 2

THE RUSSELL LIBEL CASE.

(I'ir I'tyxs Ax*<»-uiti»n. < London, lan. H. Justice Hawkins offered to amend the pleading of the defendant in the Kussell case, in order to permit of the accused being sentenced separately, but their counsel refused to accept the concession. Sir Frank Lockwood, Q.C., complained that he had been deprived of the right of of cross-examination. Lady Scott read a statement, in which she declared that she believed what honest men preferring to the codefendants) had said concerning Lord llussell. •Justice Hawkins, passing sentence made some very severe remarks on the defendants' actions. Lady Scott will be treated in prison as a first-class offender. I" li iful >ce»es were Witnessed at th mencing of the prisoners in the !»•!"* l! tibei action. Lady Scott, who w i unable to control her feelings, profited to the last h< r belief in the • haiX't - iii.ide UiMHi-l h-irl li'i-tM-11. She sud that wn- only by the lerrd l !-- wn-iu- hj» r daughter had suffered. 11, -i ic« Haw kms m [*s,sing sentence referred u> the part played bv t whom he designated as an wn-iTiipiil:ai slanderer, who had poi--inid:!i' t.tmiesa'ct miad against ber husband. Newspaper criticisms ar« uvntraily favorable towards Karl Hiiwll, but cootie tun (he bickering-* which i>ccurnd iitrtmu the IWtieli ami Bar duru ,l tr i ' Mauy journal-*, howevttr, regrvt the JlMlgt'# t*rtifcUly.

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