A DUAL PERSONALITY
■■ -r» CURIOUS CASE OF A YOUNG WOMAN.
SENT LETTERS TO HERSELF
LIBEL CHARGE AGAINST OFFICER BREAKS DOWN.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
LONDON, May 29
Colonel Charles Gardiner, a retired Army officer, was prosecuted at Brighton, charged with maliciously publishing a. defamatory libel, contained in letters, concerning Miss Kathleen O'Brien, a governess. Counsel for the prosecution informed tho Magistrates that there was not a single particle of reliablo evidence against tho accused. He was convinced that the girl had aotually written the letters herself. At the eleventh hour, a gentleman bad given information which showed that she was apparently suffering from mental derangement, a disease involving dual personality. In this condition she might writo letters to herself, and yet when she received them have no knowledge that she wrote them.
Gardiner was discharged without a stain on his character.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16565, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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140A DUAL PERSONALITY Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16565, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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