TIMARU SUPREME COURT
By Telegraph.—Prerni Aisociation. Timaru, July 30. At the.Supreme Court, Harris Grand, charged with breaches of tho bankruptcy law, was found not guilty. Edward Prank Knight was charged with arson—burning his own temporarily unoccupied cottage at Waimate—and perjury in denying at the fire inquiry that ho was near tho house the evening before 1 " the fire. The jury Totired at 10.18 p.m., and returned four hours later with a verdict of not guilty on the arson charge. It disagreed as to the perjury charge; and a new trial was ordered. • William and Jane Tarrant, charged with atoaling oattlo. at Temuka (a retrial after a disagreement at tho last session), 'were found not guilty. The retrial of E'. E. Knight on. a charge of arson at Waimate, in which cose the jury disagreed yesterday, has been commenced but not completed.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 8
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141TIMARU SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 8
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