‘NEW WITNESS’ LIBEL ACTION.
TH E POSTMASTER-GENERAL ATTACKED. London, February 27. Cecil Chesterton, editor of the New Witness, who lias been summoned at Bow Street for libelling Mr Godfrey Isaacs, whom ho accused of corruptly conspiring with the Attorney-General (Sir Rufus Isaacs), his brother) and the Postmaster-General, in his article declared that Mr Samuel and the two Isaacs were engaged in a swindle, and were guilty of theft, knavery, and villainy. It also attacked the relatives of both parties. The second article said that when the Hon. Samuel was caught with his hand in the till, the Marconi shares slumped. It also accused the Hon. Samuel and his cousins of pulling the wires over the Indian silver shares.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1913, Page 5
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118‘NEW WITNESS’ LIBEL ACTION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1913, Page 5
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