Inthe other case Major H. F. Woodgate was sued by " lady, who accused him of having token her'as the model for a character in one of his novels—character him. he plainti' doclured that the young man into a flat in order to
description of the flat, the personal description, and the name given to the character all prove! to hersclé and her friends that it was a slanderous caricature of herself. The Judge—Mr. Justice Grantham—was evidently strongly opinion that there was we portrait which anyone would have recognised if the Gat the jury thought otherwise, and the plaintiff had not fitted the cap on herself
Major has to ud costs, It. will be n warning to novel-writers. More than one prominent man of the day has been mercilessly lampooned in a novel. Generally he recognises that he can only bring ridicule on himself by taking proceedings but this case proves at least that he may have a remedy in law.
The Hickman Case.
As was inevitabl-, the Coroner's jury have returned a verdict that Miss Hickman, the lady doctor whose remains! were found in Richmond Park, committed suicide while temporarily insane. The evidence was overwhelming, and even the unh ppy father, who for a long time dun; t+ the consoling belief that death was due disease, seems to have recognised other verdict was possible. He youred to show that the hospital authorities were not quite considerate i placing so much responsibility ax they did on his daughter's shoulders; but this is dangerous argument for the advocaws of] the right of women to enter the professions to adopt. Women who enter the medical profession and claim to be treated on equal terms with men must el-viously accept equal responsibilities, and they fully} recognise this fact themselves. Nothing more was required of Miss Hickman, nor} did she make any complaint. There is in deed more reason in this case than in most where a similar venlict is returned for ascribing the act to loss of mental balance.
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