THE MASTERTON MURDERER.
Tho Napier Daily Telegraph appears to have discovered a “ mare’s nest,” a fori. •
research to which tho Opposition pros-' particularly addicted. The Minister Justice recoivod a telegram from Nap> informing him that tho Telegraph gotainod tho startling assertion that Som ville, tho Mastorton murderer, had been supplied by tho Government with money, and shipped out of tho country. Tho Minister at onco replied "With regard to Somerville, he is at present safely in tho Wellington Gaol, and likely to remain there.
This is a very good specimen of the way in which certain papers manufacture their news. No matter how glaringly absurd or impossible the statement may bo, they unhesitatingly publish it, provided it can bo in any twisted so as to represent tho Government in an unfavourable light, well knowing that if a misrepresentation can only got a few hours’ start it will stand a good chanco of never being over’ taken.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1264, 21 May 1896, Page 42
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156THE MASTERTON MURDERER. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1264, 21 May 1896, Page 42
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