Big Libel Action —Bell v. Jellicoe.
SEQUEL TO THE CHEMIS CASE. MR JELLICOE APOLOGISES AND PAYS ALL COSTS. [from our own correspondent.] Wellinoton, last night. In tna Supreme Court yesterday the libel action, Belly. Jalliaop. was commenoad. The plaintiff claimed £5OOO damages for certain allfißatiana made by defendant as to evidence in the Chemis case, of importance to prisoner, having been kept back by the prosecution. The defendant denied any imputation agft'nst Mr Bell being intended. The case occupied the Court all yesterday, and up to lunch time to-day, but on the Court resuming In the afternoon it was announced that the case had baen settled hv the defendant apologising and paying all costa. In discharging the jury, Mr Richmond Fail:—There never has been in this country, and I hopa to God there never may ba cause to suspect that the a i mini strati on ot justice has been conducted in such a way as not to give every possible legal right to every man, woman, or child, who may stand up to plead for their liberty, or, it may be, for their life,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 348, 7 September 1889, Page 2
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185Big Libel Action—Bell v. Jellicoe. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 348, 7 September 1889, Page 2
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