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Show HALF A CENT DAMAGES. Small Award For Marie Corelli in Her Damage Suit. Birmingham, England, Dec. lfi. Marie Corelli, the novelist-, was today awarded half a. cent damages, each side to pav its own costs, in a libel suit brought by her against the proprietor of the Strat-ford-on-Avon Herald in connection with the recent controversy in which Miss Corelli opposed the erection of a Carnegie Car-negie library on the ground that it involved in-volved a desecration of Shakespeare's birthplace. The alleged libel consisted in a statement that Miss Corelli desired to erect a library at the same place. The case attracted much attention and the court was croAvded. many fashionable people being present. Miss Corelli testified testi-fied in tier own behalf for two hours and emphatically denied that she wanted to erect a library. |
