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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 51, 7 October 1892, Page 31

Lord Obief Justice Coleridge bad the temerity the other day to tell the son of a duke that the people had certain rights, and that if a commoner were assaulted by a duke on the public highway, there would be tronble for tbe nobleman. The case which elicited this remarkable pronouncement was that of a workingman against the Duke of Rutland, the plaintiff complaining of having been knocked down by one of his Grace's gamekeepers for being in the way when the latter was driving grouse for his Grace* shooting. The evidence given during tbe trial of the suit showed that tbe gamekeeper knocked the plaintiff down on tbe highway and that when the plaintiff com* plained of this treatment to the Duke's son, Lord Edward Manners, the latter (who belies his name) replied : "Go to the devil. If you are shot your life will be on your own bead." This, the Lord Chief Justice said, could not be tolerated from any person, dnke or other. Lord Edward Manners, interposing at this point in the remarks of the Lord Chief Justice, said that his Lordship's words seemed to hold him (Lord Edward) up as a prospective murderer. To this Lord Coleridge replied : " I only said what I considered it my duty to say."