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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 38, 10 January 1890, Page 27

Even in the Times I (Truth) have hardly ever seen a more dighoneßt piece of journalism thau tbe telegrams from America daring tbe Crouin trial. More than once in these despatches depositions, real or pretended, taken by la-vyers, and all sorts of ex parte statemi nts maiie out of court, have been htartily sandwich id iv between f-agtneniary reports of the evidence, so that the average reader would i 'evitably read tbe whole garbled column as a c >nti>.ujus account of the trial. lam sorry to all that other Uaonist j >urna sup pear to r>" »ii kin? to the Times level in this re-pect ; but the Telegraph and Standard had sufficient honesty to p int out on Monday tb»>. a similar statement which had appealed as part of the case for the prosecution in their Saturday's edition was in reality a statement made by a convict to one of the prosecuting lawyers, ana was no evidence given in Court. Of course, no such apology or explanation has emanated from Printing- House square, which still keeps its position as the head* quarters of Pigottism.