WOMAN’S WIRELESS CALL,

Otago Witness, Issue 3619, 24 July 1923, Page 41

WOMAN’S WIRELESS CALL,

MAN COMES BACK FROM CANADA. DAMAGES FOR DECEIT. A remarkable story was told before ihe King’s Bench Division recently in the hearing of an action by Mr James Carey, Somerset, against Mrs Winifred Dagger, of Dorset, for damages for alleged deceit and misrepresentation, which she denied. Mr S. Goodman, who appeared for Mr Carey, said that in September, 1922, while he and his wife were on a visit to England from Canada, he borrowed £2 from Mrs Dagger, who was his second cousin. When Mr Carey was three days at sea on the return voyage to Canada he received from Mrs Dagger the following message by wireless “Return at once. —Winnie” A little later he received another message : —“Business too urgent to explain, l on are indispensable. Don’t mail. Return.” Gn receipt of the messages Mr Carey thought his father was very ill or dead. He therefore disembarked at Montreal, the firs! riort of call, and caught a steamer back to England. On arrival at Galhampton ' he found his father perfectly well. He wrote to Mrs Dagger saying he would sue her for damages. He added: “It is all over the country that I owe you that £2 which I will pay you.” Acknowledging the £2. Mrs Dagger wrote reproaching him for his treatment of his “poor old father.” who, she said, had been cut up about his going off to Canada. She added: “I was hurt and annoyed when I heard you had gone. I was greatly surprised at your behaviour to me. . . . You have no fool to deal with in your cousin, and no coward.” Mrs Dagger had no right, said Mr Goodman, to send wireless messages of that nature smiply because Mr Carev owed her £2. and then defend her action bv saving she was acting in the interests of his father. She said in her defence that she sent the message in the honest belief that it was her dutv to get Mr Carey back to England for his father’s sake. Mrs Dagger, in the witness box. said I Mr Carey’s father after bis son returned | to Canada seemed disappointed and upset, ! and she thought it was Mr Carey’s duty ! to come home to look after his father. | The second telegram was sent by a g:rl I friend of hers who said the first one was I of no use. and would not bring Mr Carey ] back. Mr Justice Branson said he could not | believe a word Mrs Dagger said, anti he | was of opinion that she sent the telegrams for some purpose of her own —whether it was spite or affection he could not say — fo get Mr Carey hack IT.- gave judgment for .-,r Carey with £l2O damages and costs.

Frost fish have been very scare© this ■winter (states the Timaru Herald), but a king fish, which turned the scales at 131 b, was picked up on the beach at Normanby one morning recently.