SUCCESSFUL ALIBI.

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SUCCESSFUL ALIBI.

burglary charge fails. J irRISS iSSOCIATIOK ratSOBiM.) NAPIER, November 21. Charged with breaking and entering the warehouse of Ellison and Duncan, Ltd., Port Ahuriri, oil the night of July 25th. and stealing cash, cheques, postal notes, and other articles to value of £lls 16s 7d, Allan . Arthur Mcintosh (Mr C. W. Nash) was .found not guilty, in the Supremo Court before Mr Justice Blair to-day. For'the defence,'Mr Nash prodiioed witnesses 'to prove that accused leit the shop where lie was employed at 9 o'clock in the evening,. proceeding to a, friend's placed where he stayed until 3 o'clock on the following morning. Mcintosh's mother gave evidence to th© effect that she heard her son return home shortly before 4 o'clock. For the prosecution, Mr H. B. Xjusk stated "that accused's alibi was not complete, : because ' various witnesses were not quite positive of the times of accused's movements, and that a difference of Tialf an hour would be sufficient for him to have perpetrated the crime. When arrested, accused .had in his possession a manicure set similar to one missing from Ellison and Duncan's, and a postal, note for eighteenpence which had been in. the firm s .offifo. : The jury returned a verdict _oi not ■ guilty after one hour's deliberation.