PERJURY CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 479, 19 July 1902, Page 3

PERJURY CASE.

A SOUTHERN SENSATION. By Telograph—Press Association. Timaru, last night. Tho Stipendiary Magistrate was engaged to-day in hearing a charge of perjury preferred against E. Carr, of Temuka, the charge arising out of an assault case in which Carr was concerned at lust sitting of tho Supreme Court, Timaru, but was acquitted. In his evidence at the trial, Carr stated that on tho night of the assault ho was in tho Star Hotel at Temuka, after 11 p.m., and obtained drink. Tho police aro endeavoring to prove that Carr made this statement to disconnect himself with the assault, and that ho was never in this hotel on the night in question. A considerable body of evidence was called, including that of tho liconsoo of iho Star Hotol and others, who emphatically contradicted Carr. Later.-At the last session of tho Supremo Court here in Juno, two men, named Carr and Heron, wore charged with violent assault and robbery at Temuka, at midnight on March 25th. In his defence, Carr swore that he and Heron wore at that time in the Star Hotel. Tho licensee denied it, but tho jury evidently gave weight to Carr’s story. Heron was too drunk to remember what he had been doing. Carr was to-day charged with perjury. The licensee of tho Star Hotol, Temuka, Mr Liddiard, stated that he closed up tho hotol at 11 p.m., and went to bod, and did not get up again till tho morning. Mrs Liddiard, three servants, and several lodgers wero called, to say that no ono could have come to the hotol after 11, or they must have heard them. Mr Hay, for tho defence, claimed that these witnesses had not given suoh positive corroborative evidence as the Criminal Code requires; it was merely negative. Carr’s story might bo true, and these witnesses called to support the licensee had all been asleep. Tho Magistrate did not accept this suggestion, and committed Carr for trial. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £SO each, and was forthcoming.