ABOMINABLE LIBEL ON POLICE
AN EDITOR SENT TO GAOL
(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright)
(Received 14th December, 9.55 a.m) LONDON, 13th December. Commenting that accused had published an abominable libel that the police had batoned a man to death in the Castleford unemployed disturbances, and neither withdrew the .statement nor apologised, Mr Justice Goodard sentenced Clarence, Mason, editor of the “Daily Worker,” at Leeds, to six months’ imprisonment. 'The publishers of the “Utopia Press" were lined .CSIIO.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 December 1932, Page 5
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79ABOMINABLE LIBEL ON POLICE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 December 1932, Page 5
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