“Mr. Edmunds earlier in the evening spoke about ‘a trick’ and sharp practice; but what he referred to had nothing to do with Dr. Keats and his cat.”
The second alleged libel was contained in the issue for 8 May 3, 1913, and was in these terms:
“GUARDIANS AND FLOGGING.
DR. KEAT’S INVISIBLE WHIP.
FLOGGING.
“We say whatever you like to call it, Dr. Keats had been doing it.
“What a degrading thing for a medical superintendent to be flogging children! And Dr. Capes actually sought to get the Board’s approval for such doings. Now if you are going to flog children, you must flog men, for men are worse than children. Good heavens! after sixty years of Froebel and Pestalozzi to still find children flogged, and their ‘guardians’ approving. How very mean and pitiful our standard of public life still is in England.