From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 10 April 1915:
With much satisfaction we record that Mrs. Johnson, formerly of Redhill and now of Old Town, Croydon, has been awarded by the Home Office £500 compensation for eighteen months’ wrongful imprisonment. This unhappy woman was wrongly convicted in October, 1912, and July, 1913, of writing threatening letters. The letters have since been clearly traced to another person. Her husband and family were compelled to leave their former home, and were reduced almost to destitution. The compensation is none too large after two and a half years of agony, but we congratulate the Home Office warmly upon having done the just thing and done it promptly.
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