Charge of Perjury Against a Clergyman.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 Invebcargill, July 16. At the Police Court the Rev. Mr Woollass was charged with perjury, in swearing that the insulting remarks, for which Mr Wade, solicitor, was fined, were made before the business of the Licensing Committee had concluded. The evidence given showed that Mr Woollass was wrong in his evidence, that other business was transacted after Mr Wade's remarks. : Mr Shaw, one of the Justices who fined Mr Wade, stated that the Bench was not influenced by Mr Woollass s evidence, as counsel for the Chairman of the Committee stated at the hearing of the charge against Mr Wade, that Mr Woollass was evidently mistaken in the face of the testimony given by the shorthand reporter, and withdrew his (Mr Woollass's) evidence. AY ithout calling for the defence the Bench ■aid they believed Mr Woollass thought he was speaking the truth, but was mistaken, and therefore dismissed the case.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 17 July 1894, Page 3
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160Charge of Perjury Against a Clergyman. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 17 July 1894, Page 3
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