TYPISTE CARRIED OUT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 112, 17 June 1914, Page 7

TYPISTE CARRIED OUT.

"A PAWN IN THE GAME."

SENSATIONAL LIBEL SUIT.

GIRL'S STARTLING ALLEGATIONS.

DEFENDANT DENIES THE CHARGES.

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SYDNEY, June 16. The case in which Gwendoline

I Browne, aged eighteen, an ex-typiste if in the employ of John Bridge and Co., ; j "j8 claiming £2OOO as compensation from : Lionel Bridge, managing director of ' the company, for alleged libel and as- ■ sault,.* was continued to-day. * The evidence of Lionel J. A. Bridge, > the defendant, was a contradiction of the . statements and deductions drawn by the plaintiff and her witnesses. He

declared that there was nothing in his

: v ; Biind. when he wrote the letter on t !•■ iwhich the action was founded, except . the. maintenance of discipline. He admi tied carrying Browne out, but de- - I nied using any unnecessary force. Evidence-given during the case disclosed that certain employees had been • or had severed, their con* . iiection with John Bridge Aiid Company , ,;as a result of the incidents . .X- Counsel „fo,r the defence argued that fpi the jury were to believe plaintiff 's they must conehide that de- , ;i'#endaht his ep-♦] l irectp,rß were guitty :'if diabolical, wickedness* He characterised one portion of Browne's evi--1 i tfence, ' 'that defendant,' in conversa'tion with-her, said she might have her i jaalary doubled if she adopted a sug- . | gestion he made to her," as pure | imagination on the part of an hysterical girl. He contended that Morath, head iof Browne's department* was seeking to relieve himself of-the authority of the directors in connection with matters concerning his department, and used Browne as an incident to forward hie pretensions. Counsel for plaintiff said the motives of defendant in dismissing Browne were that she : spurned his overtures, and, as a man ' rejected, he * resorted to tipite and walice. There j was illfeeling between defendantaad Morath, \ ( and. he dismissed the girl a means of : ■ 'checkmating Morath, and making him; bite 'the" dust. The girl was only, in.the game, ■The case is not yet finished.