POLICE LIBEL SUIT.
EX-INSPECTOR GETS GAOL. FLOUTS JUDGE AND JURY. By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Received July 17, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. An ex-inspector named Syme has been sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for libelling Sir Edward Henry, the Metropolitan Commissioner of Police, by alleging blackmail and tyrrany. , Syme conducted his own defence, flouting Mr Justice Coleridge and the jury, by alleging that the jury was packed. Mr Justice Coleridge said that the case disclosed the higher authorities' scrupulous fairness and untiring care in dealing with complaints. No police administration in the world would emerge more free from suspicion.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 138, 17 July 1914, Page 7
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100POLICE LIBEL SUIT. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 138, 17 July 1914, Page 7
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