TALKING TO JURYMEN.
AGE WITHDRAWS FROM A LIBEL AN EX-MINISTER'S CLAIM. Bj Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (Received August 26, 11 a.mj> MELBOURNE, August 25. ' In the libel action the Hon. George Swinburne, a member of the Assembly, versus the Melbourne Age newspaper, the defendants have withdrawn from the case owing to certain conversations having occurred between a lawyer's clerk and the jurymen. The judge decided to go on with the case in the absence of defendants, holding there was nothing to make him dissatisfied with the jury's fitness to>try the case. [Plaintiff is claiming £5000 damages for alleged 4ibel contained in criticisms of his administration when holding the portfolio of Minister for Water Supply in Victoria.]
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13992, 25 August 1909, Page 2
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115TALKING TO JURYMEN. Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13992, 25 August 1909, Page 2
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