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REPORTS OF DIVORCE UASES
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The report of the Solecs Committee ap pointed tu consider the Judicial, Proceed- ngs (Regulation of Reports) Bill-is-one more proof of the difficulty of safeguard ing public moralk by legislation. Hitherto in this country, teary to the practice elsewhere, the newspapers have been allow-
ed to
report divorce and other matrimonial rases so long as they do not contravene the ordinary law relating to indecent ar obscene matter. The question before the Committee was, in effect whether this privilege has been so much abused that newspapers should be restrained, in the public interest from publishing reports Full to be intelligible, and, if sufficiently
o, what limitations should be
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upon them. To allow a full report subject to the existing law-places the responsibility squarely on the publisher's shonklers; to allow the publication of the bare fucts only might be extremely nujast to one or other of the parties. The Committo-after-ex amining eleven witness, who included no representative of any single newspaper have attempted to find a middle course; but we doubt whether in soloing they have given much help to the. Legislature. Ther suggest that the evidence should be exclud- ed. while the grounds of
Proventions the Judge's summing-up and may be given., But would this achieve the object? Surely the pleadings (to say no thing" of the Judge's summing-up) may set out all the details which it is desirable
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exclude, and contain reference to c charges which the witnesses fail to substantiate. Are the charges to be reported. and tbo rebutting evidence omitted? The pro posed publication of the pleadings, by the way, is a complete innivation, for they have never hitherto been available for this newspapers. Again, who i to decide what
in a passages
report are indecent 7 Hitherto the decision has rested with the publisher, guided by his knowledge or fear of the law: in future the discretion is to be exercised by some unnamed - official. We cannot persunds ourselves that these proposals would really have the effect in- intended.
It is, of course, idle to deny that there are newspapers which distort a sordid talá of human weakness into an epic or a comedy, and it is presumably impracticable to compel them to follow the inethod of this journal. which is to employ a member of the Bar to report the proceedings in the Divorce Court, as in other Courts, as part of the legal news of the day, without pr minence, pictures, or other embellishments. The scavengers will always find garbage even if they are hended off this particular byuting groundIf Parliament in its wisdom were to decide that in future matri
sas should not be reported at all.
then we
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ou th" might indeed criticize the decisi
grands which appealed to
the Committen; but as a newspaper wo would only welcome it ag relieving us of. a distasteful duty and releasing space for more pleasant and more important matters. There is no question for decent newspapers of making gain or circulation out of these reports. Their task is simply to render their record of public lawsuits fair and complete. The Committee, how- ever, were definitely against tonl excin
and, although we recognize the care and devotion to the public interest which they brought to a most difficult task, we doubt whether the proposed amendments to the Bill would prove effective without it-Tinies
MONEY IN AN OLD BOOK.
WIDOW FAINTS ON LEARNING OF HER GOOD. FORTUNE.
To find Treasury and Baak of England notes to the value of £216 in an old dummy volume that was purchased with a number of books was the happy experi ence of a buyer in the employ of Messrs. W. and C Foyle, book-sellers, of 121-125, Charing Cross-road.
The story of the discovery was told to an Observer representative by Mr. W. A. Foyle, who is exhibiting the lucky volume outside his premises with a brief an nouncement of the facts. On the red leather back of the heavy-looking “book” is the title "Surgical Instruments and Appliances work well known to the medical profession. On raising the book: it is seen that the inside has been re moved, and that the two mottled sides have been neatly formed into a hox with portions of a cigar-box, and fitted with a lock
The dummy book was included in the library of a member of the medical pró fession recently decensed, whose name was well known to the public. His widow was anxious to dispose of several of the books, and accordingly a buyer from Messrs. Foyle's attended at her premises and removed them in his van. He noticed the peculiar dummy volume, which was locked, and he drew the lady's attention to it, but she attached no value to it, and said it was to gu.
On returning to the shop the buyer sorted his purchases and forced the sides of the dummy volume. To his amazement ho found it was stuffed full of notes, which were crumpled up, and had evi dently been thrust in hurriedly from time to time. There were five Bank of Eng- Jand--notes, the rest being El Treasury notes, all of recent issue. The buyer im mediately reported his discovery to Mr. Foyle, who told him he had better inform the widow at once, of her good fortune. He returned to the lady's Bat, in which sho was alone, and narrated what, had' happened, and the news so overpowered her that she went into a dead faint..
As there was no one on the previses to summon to bis assistance, the buyer pro- tured Bome water, and was fortunate in soon restoring the lady to consciousness, She was overjoyed at the news, which meant so much to her in her altered cir cumstances, and promptly handed the finder a £5 note as a reward for his dis covery. She could not account for the radi secret hoard, of which she had no know- lege whatever. As, however, ther-bys band died suddenly, it is probable he intended to keep the little store as pleasuite surprise for his wife, but had no opportunity of telling her of its exisk ence at the, time of his death.
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