A MALICIOUS LIBEL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11976, 20 September 1906, Page 5

A MALICIOUS LIBEL.

Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. Received September 19. 11.34 p.m.

LONDON. September 19

Matilda Stanley, who was once organist at Hatfield House, hae been sentenced to six months at the Old Baik-y for publishing pamphlets alleging that Lady Gwendolin Cecil had a badv to the Rev. J. Edwards, the late Lord Salisbury's chaplain. The Judge, in passing sentence, remarked that the accusation was a most malicious and perfectly groundless libel, which amounted almost to blackmail.