JURY DISAGREES
TRIAL LASTS TWO DAYS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, 28th Nov
After a trial lasting two days, the jury to-night failed to agree on charges against William Tercival Leonard Knight ctf stealing; postal packets from eight post boxes 'at New Plymouth, and four at Stratford, and in addition with, attempting to break and enter a. chemist's shop at Waitara. A re-trial was ordered. Raymond J. V. Elliott had previously pleaded guilty to similar charges, and he and his wife alleged they had been present with Knight during the commission of the offences. They said all the boxes nad been smashed open with a tire lever and several hundreds- of letters taken' opened, and thrown away after some postal notes and banknotes had been extricated.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 4
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126JURY DISAGREES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 4
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