The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

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Ltion, and a third

for libeL The plaintiff had been engaged as valet to the
defendant far a considerable period, and at the time the
occurrence took place he was staying with him in that
capacity at Ravensvrorth Castle, the seat of Lord Ravens-
worth,.father of the defendant. On the night of the 31st
December the 4efendant and his lady retired to their bed-
room, the door of which was left ajar, and about three
,D clock in the morning Mr. Liddell, having occasion to go
into the dressing-room adjoining-the bedroom, discovered
that some person had been there while he and Mrs. Liddell
hiad.been asleep, and that a considerable quantity of vet
valual)le jewellery, :and £lOO in money, had b
from own dressing-case, and that a great deal of simila

property had also been taken from aloOic belonging to Mrs.
Lidel4ll. The,police were called in, and the plaintiff was
' taken into custody on suspicion of being concerned in the
robbery.; but after undergoing one or two examinations
before
.a magistrate he was discharged, and he brought
the present action to recover damages for what was alleged
to be -his .illegal detention ,under the circumstances. The
evidence to support the -count for libel went to show that
a person acquainted with the plaintiff wrote to Mr.
Liddell, informing him that lie had applied to the plaintiff
for some motley he owed him, and that he told him he
could not pay 'lam, because Mr. Liddell had .a.et paid him
his wages, and inquiring whether this was true.; to which
' Mr. Liddell wrote in reply that he had discharged the
plaintiff on account of his being implicated in a robbery
' to a large extent at Ravensworth Castle, but that he had
I: paid him all the wages to which be was entitled,. For
the defendant, it was urged, that taking the plaintiff into
• custody was the act of the police, that there was reason-
able cause of suspicion that the plaintiff was a person
concerned in the robbery, and that the letter which I
formed the subject of the third count did not amount to
a libel. . The jury returned a verdict for the defendant
upon the ,two counts for the malicious prosecution, and
upon the count for libel they gave a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages £5.
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