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Action for Libel.«In the Queen’s Bench Division yesterday, a man named Helmore sued Mr. Loch, the secretary to the Charity Organisation Society, for libel. The plaintiff is an uncertificated bankrupt, who has suffered fifteen months’ hard labour for sending a threatening letter to a young lady whom he had persecuted w h his attentions. On coming out of gaol he endeavoured to establish a home for waifs and strays, for which he asked the benevolent to give him ^43,000; and, to advertise the scheme, he went into the streets with a piano-organ, dressed in a monk’s robe and cowl. The Charity Organization Society advertised and sent out circulars cautioning the public against entrusting their money to Helmore. This was the libel complained of. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant, for whom judgment was entered with costs,
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London St James Gazette An Evening Review and Record of News
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Feb 04, 1888
Page 12
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