"THE WHOLE TRUTH."
BUYING UP WITNESSES.
By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright
Hobart, February 19.
Patrick Hill, an ex-postal employee, was committed for trial on a charge of ■subornation of witnesses in the Rona'dHarper libel case. Some witnesses doposed that Hill, who claimed to be acting on behalf of Harper, offered thorn considerable .sums and promised them permanent situations if they would give evidence against Ronald.
in some instances witnesses deposed ts> having received similar promises from voung Harper. It was alle.jid that the evidence they gave in the libel action was manufactured and fnla\
Hill, it 13 said, told one witness lie got £2.jo from Harper for securing' witnesses.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 320, 21 February 1910, Page 5
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