ALLEGED ASSAULT.
(Per Press Association). GISBORNE, June 26.
The case of the teacher, Ivy Bell Carr, against Lionel George Clare, merchant, for £SOOO damages tor alleged criminal assault, was continued to-day before Sir John Salmond and a common jury. Under examination, plaintiff admitted that she went to the races the day after the alleged assault. She did not inform the police nor call in a doctor. She admitted writing to a cook named Thomson at Frusertown, asking him for £4O, hinting that she was going for a divorce. She said that before the alleged assaidt Thomson had hinted that she should get a di\ orce.
The defence alleged that: the case had been brought because money could not be got out of Clare. In the box, defendant admitted that Mrs Carr was at; his home on two occasions when his wife was away. He denied all her allegations of criminal assault. The case has not yet concluded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1053, 27 June 1924, Page 5
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