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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1918, 14 August 1888, Page 3

The legal difficulties of an English headmaster have been curiously illustrated m the oase of Mr Hutt against the Haileybury authorities. That school has recently been embarassed by a succession of thefts. Suspicion fell on a boy oalled Hutt ; a trap was laid for him ; and his guilt was held to be proved by Mr Robertson, the head-master, on the Btrength of the aohool-marshal'a evidence, She boy denied the theft and on his expulsion the father brought an aotion against the sohool for breaoh of contract. An imposing array of counsel appeared on either side, and Mr Justice Field made an elaborate oharge to the jury. The verdict was a doublebarrelled one. The jurors found that young Eutt did not steal the money m question ; but they also found that the Haileybury authorities aoted m iotui fides m expelling him. Both parties are therefore, cleared. But there remains the question of costs, and this will be re-argued m Court. Altogether the trial will involve considerable expense, whioh must be provided for.