CHARGE AGAINST COLONEL.
DERANGED GIRI/S "DUAL PERSONALITY."
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) (London Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received May 30, 8.30 a.m.) ■ Colonel Charles Gardiner, a retired Army officer, r-^v as ' prosecuted: at Brighton for maliciously publishing a defama. tory llibel' concerning Misil Kathleen O'Brien, a Oolohel . (iardiner had ' mado several , appearances on the # charge, bub to-day eounsel for the prosecutiott ' inf^rtned 1 •--the.'* liiagistrates that theffc wai'iiot a shfgle particle of reliable evidence against • the accused. He was convinced the 'girl had actually written the letters herself. At the. eleventh hour '■&■ gentleman had given! information 'which sh6\ved that she was apparently suffering from hrehtal derangement, a disease involving n dual personality. She might write letters, to ; herself, and yet when she received them, have no knowledge that sue wrote them. Colonel Gardiner was discharged with> out' a stain bn> his character. '■■ ■" '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 4
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