GIRL'S SENSATIONAL STORIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11854, 19 May 1909, Page 5

GIRL'S SENSATIONAL STORIES.

LEAD TO SLANDER ACTION. ' DOCTOR'S CHARACTER ASPERSED, j (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. \ At» action brought by Dr Tliomas Stuart, of Tauranga, against Dr Edward A Bewes and his wife, also of Tauranga, , for £501 damages for alleged slander, '-, has been satisfactorily settled. In an- \\ npuncing the fact at the Supreme Court j Mr Reed, for the defendants, said that , the terms of settlement required aii ex-. \ planation. The statement of claim set ( out that' the plaintiff was slandered by ] the defendants wife, .by saying, m -eU. ■] feet, that the plaintiff had been inipos- \ ing his attentions on her servant girl. , The Jattei 1 had complained to Mrs Bewes ' that she . had been followed about by Dr Stuart, who was a single man, and ] eventually began to produce- letters, { purporting to have come from Dr Stuart, asking her to make appointments with « him. The matter .became public talk. ' Ultimately the girl, when taxed, con- \ fesseel . that throughout the whole pro- "■ ccedings shb had milled Mrs 1-lewes, that Bho had never been molested by Dr Stuart, jand tliat tho letter she had produced, purporting to bo from D,r Stuart, had been written by herself. The terms of settlement were that the defendants wero to pay plaintiff's- costs, and they I expressed regret' that Dr Stuart should have suffered from any statements made. . •■WMMMMMBOTk ' I