A Slander Action.
DISAPPEARANCE OF A NOTE. Per Press Association. Dunedin, June 23. A slander action, in which Robert Coghill claimed £501 damages' for slander from Frank Wilkinson/ chemist, was conducted to-day. Wilkinson had , gone to the shop of { .Riutherford, a groper, who sometimes \ employed Coghill to go through. ;' his' books and told him tine ' cJrpumjsUuftces . connected with the disappearance of a £1 note from) the till in his,Een-« sing'ton shop abqut the timje- that Coghill was. behind .tihe- counter U&ing his telephone. Rbtiherfoi^d told Cog;hil] and others, and according to' his evidence Wilkinson told him that he \v,as morally certain that itihe note hald been, tkken by Coghill, and h l^ daug-h^ ter, -who was at, >he desk behind - a screen .corroborated E,uiiherfor(i in. thi&.vfWitkinfion .who was unaware of the jiiresence of .his, daughter, stated-, that he only related the. circumstanced to R^itherford, ,but "denied actually ohargincf Co'gihill with, the theft*,? • •> i , The -jury^ after a^/long retiremftnjb> retui^neicl with" a' verdict ' for 'Cowhillwith a farthing dunnages anil- costs^ hut on it being pointed out that they ooniM not award costss but thai ,a verdict for , 40/ would carry coste, re-, tii'ed again and came baclk with a. verdict for 40/. ■ - " '
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12290, 24 June 1903, Page 2
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201A Slander Action. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12290, 24 June 1903, Page 2
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