DEFAMATORY LIBEL.
SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT.
[by telegraph.—press association-.] Wellington, Saturday. The woman, Letitia Jane Hood, who pleaded guilty yesterday to publishing a. defamatory libel concerning one, Lily Dalziell, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to-day. His Honor said his duty was to see that the law was vindicated. Prisoner had tried to foment bad feeling among people who believed with her and people who did not believe with her Prisoner had written lies, and he could not sentence her to less than six months' imprisonment. He would get the a oi surgeon to watch over prisoner, and see what was the cause of the outburst that had given her so much trouble.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15997, 16 August 1915, Page 5
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