Editor Sent to Gaol
GRAVE LIBEL AGAINST POLICE IN YORKSHIRE RIOTS. PUBLISHERS OF ANOTHER PAPER FINED £SO United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 13. Commenting that the accused had published an abominable libel that the police had batoned a man to death in the Castleford (Leeds district) unemployment disturbances, and that he neither withdrew the,statement nor apologised, Mr Justice Goddard sentenced Clarence Mason, editor of the Daily Worker, Leeds, to six months’ imprisonment. The publishers of tho Utopia Press were fined £SOO.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7031, 15 December 1932, Page 7
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84Editor Sent to Gaol Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7031, 15 December 1932, Page 7
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