GIRL'S DUAL STATE.
A COLONEL PROSECUTED. SURPRISING SEQUEL. Xty Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. (Received May 30, 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 29. Colonel Charles Gardiner, a retired Army officer, has been prosecuted at Brighton on a charge of maliciously publishing defamatory libel concerning Miss Kathleen, O'Brien, a governess.
Colonel Gardiner made several appearances to answer the charge, ard to-day counsel for the prosecution informed the Magistrates that there was >■•" not a" single particle of reliable cvi- ',' dence against the accused. He was, he eaid, convinced that the girl had actu- .... ally written the letters herself, and at the '^eyenthLhottr a ifcad given information which' showed that she iwias apparently' suffering from a mental derangement, the disease involving a dual personality. Thus she might, write letters to herself, and yet ,', when she. received them have no know- - • ledge that she wrote 1 them. /' '"■ Colonel , Gardiaaer was discharged without a staift on his' character.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 97, 30 May 1914, Page 9
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150GIRL'S DUAL STATE. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 97, 30 May 1914, Page 9
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