THE CARR-CLARE CASE
EVIDENCE NOT CONCLUDED. (Per Press Association.) GISBORNE, June 26. The ease of the teacher, Ivy Bell Carr, against Lionel George Clare, merchant, a claim for £5OOO damages for alleged criminal assault, was continued to-day before Sir John Salmond and a common jury. Under examination, plaintiff admitted that she went to the races the day after the alleged assault. She did not inform the police or call in a doctor. She admitted writing to a cook named Thomson, at Frasertown, asking him for £4O, hinting that she was going for a divorce. She said that before the alleged assault Thomson had hinted that she should get a divorce. The defence alleged that the case had bebn brought because money could not be g°t out of Clare. In the box defendant admitted that Mrs. Carr was at his home on two occasions when ho wife was away. He denied all her allegations of criminal assault. The case has not yet concluded.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19048, 27 June 1924, Page 2
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