SPEED© WAS NOT WOUND BACK.
IMPUDENT, DARING SLANDER ACTION. JUDGE SAYS CRIMINAL CASE MAY FOLLOW. (Special to the “ Star. ”) DUXEDIX, August IS. In the. Supreme Court Thomas Ilenry Brown claimed £SOO from George Augustus Herbert - for alleged slander, based on a statement made by the defendant that the plaintiff had the speedometer of his motor-car wound back five thousand miles before selling his car, thereby involving himself in a conspiracy to defraud. The plaintiff denied having tampered with the speedometer, or instructing anvone else to do . so. The defendant maintained that his words were true and that the speedometer was actualbwound back. Mr Justice Ostler accepted the evidence of the plaintiff as true, he having proved that the speedometer was not wound back. The defendant, his Honour said, had made an impudent and daring attempt to defeat the course of justice. He directed the Registrar to impound all his exhibits, and said that he would consider whether to recoinmend the police to investigate with a view to criminal proceedings.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18544, 18 August 1928, Page 6
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