CONTEMPT OF COURT.
CLERGYMAN SENT TO PRISON. PRESBYTERY CLERK REFUSES TO PRODUCE A DOCUMENT. United Press Association —Copyright. (Receive March 15, 11.13 p.m.) MELBOURNE, March 15. The Rev. P. J. Murdoch, clerk of South Melbourne Presbytery, has been committed to prison for contempt of Court in refusing to produce a copy of a letter sent by the Presbytery to tbe defendant in the action of the Rev. Mr. Ronald versus Robert Harper, member of the House of Representatives. Mr Murdoch insisted that lie had sworn to keep all documents of the Presbytery, and could not give them up without the Presbytery’s authority.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2451, 16 March 1909, Page 5
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102CONTEMPT OF COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2451, 16 March 1909, Page 5
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