Weekly News. — 1889-12-12 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

LIBEL ON MR. F. C. BURNAND. His clients were handicapped be the pressure of betrayed any dread of pain or fear of dem?: 'ridltt I the Queen's Bench Division on Saturday, be. 'public opinion against them. Mr. Forrest proceeded never appeared as buoyant as during the ei, erg fore Mr. Baron Huddleston and a special jury, the !u° GAG of Burnand v. the National Press Agency and i distributed in court. He admitted that - -to persuade him that his health was improving, dileic,•pluasee that the prosecution had the claqueurs days of his fatal illness. The doctors . ieeeve others was called on. The plaintiff in this case, Mr. against his clients, but pointed out she; it was to tion had taken place. On Thursday morning,howerer, jthere wasya peculiar combination of cireunistauces but Mr. Davis steadily insisted that no anisi.oraF. C. Burnand, claimed to recover damages for the pecuniary interest of Linen and Cari,•sn to shew he felt so much better that he humorously reaisaked libel, the defendants being the National press the former that the white horse drew the, buggy that he was afraid he would be compelled to %gra Agency (Limited) and the society Hcculd (Limited), which conveyed Dr. Cronin to the cottage, and the with the doctors, and to admit that lee was really The defendants by their original defence pleaded latter that it was Carlson's cotteee wht re the doctor improving. I. he favourable symptonis contieeed an apology and the payment of gto into court, but was murdered. Dinan, he 11",eri,d, woo getting ' until 6 o'clock the following evening, when, x ,t,out the National l'ress Agency, in an amended de- 100dol. a week for exhibiting the horss eta museum, assignable cause, a conge-tive chill super-, ined, fence, denied publication, but admitted that they while Carlson was making mousy' by charging for which seemed to crush vitality out of the en- e-e:ad had printed the libel. Mr. -Lockwood, Q.C., and admission to the cottage body, and from that time until the end the patant Mr. J. Lawson Walton appeared for the plaintiff, , --- gradually sank. At 7 o'clock Mrs. Davis vas while Mr. Mr..lelf, Q.C. and Mr. Rerly represented ~.---- . , ministering some medicine to her hubb :nd. ige . the National Press Agency, and Mr. Scarlett the I declined to receive tie whole dose. Sir endee v-', ad Society Herald. -- Mr. Lockwood, in opening , to induce him to do so, but the eie; 111a7 e,:ely the case, said the libel was contained in the ' ' 1 w ih'spered, "Pray, excuse me," and the .•• oere Society Herald, which depended for its printing - his last words. Gradually groa ing weak, , out upon the National Press Agency. Mr. Burnand conscious, and without a trace of ps•n .7 !lit had long been connected with literary and dramatic leeks Mr. Davie lay peacefully for hours. ell edly 'rock. In February, 1889, Mr. Burnand had been 1 clasping his wife's hand. As halt-past I', eeen engaged upon the constructh.n of a play, ! Mr* Davis and a few friends were g,-.i-, ,a‘t the which was composed of the eplsodee cf Charles I bedside, the Aoctors, noticing that tl d ).7'.:._ 7 WU Dickens's "Pickwick," and in this he was aesisted 1 Meathing heavily as he lay on L: : i.e.. .reiisied by Mr. Edward Solomon, who had undertaken to , bito to tern on his right aide, and mita Its incek provide the iacidental music. It was announced that ! resting on his right hand and lii left hand Grooving the play would be produced on the 4th of February, , ! across his chest. Mr. Dal in lay for a veers., et but, owing to circumstances which occurred at the ' an hour, breathing faintly, the r si.ivatems growing last moment, the presentation of the piece had lobe 1 feebler until they ceased altogether. It ie believed deferred from Monday, the 4th -A February, till , that the foundation of Mr. Davis's last illness was. Thursday, the 7th. On the sth of February, before 1 moiaria, ccrmpl icate4 by acute bronchitis. The t the piece was produced, however, a criticism upon ! latter hvd been overceii• , but the congeatia, i 5, "id it appeared in the Societe Herald, signed " Pittite," 1 A