A GIRL'S DUAL PERSONALITY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 5

A GIRL'S DUAL PERSONALITY.

..ACCUSED OFFICER DISCHARGED. 1 (Received May 30, 3 a.m.) ' LONDON, May 29. Colonel Charles Gardiner, a retired ..Army officer, 'was prosecuted at Brighton for maliciously publishing defamatory libel concerning Miss Kathleen O'Brien, a governess. At thej "hearing of the charge to-day, counsel for the prosecution informed the ma- 1 , ; gistrate's that there was not a single particle of reliable evidence against the accused, and was convincorl that the girl had actually written tho letters herself. At the eleventh hour a gonfcleman had given information wtieh showed that she was apparently .uffering from mental derangement., <-r a •disease involving a dual personality, so that she might write letters to herself, and yet, when she received their, have no knowledge that she had Tvttien * ' them. Colonel Gardiner was discharged. • without a stain on his character.