THE CASE OF WALTER TRICKER.
The Committee of Inquiry appointed last session of the General Assembly to inquire into the case of "Walter Tricker, whom it will be remembered now remains under sentence of penal servitude for life, for the alleged murder of Mr Rayner, has at length made its Report, which has been laid on the tables of both Houses. The document is too long for transferrence to our columns, but we may say, in brief, that the alibi which Tricker pleaded is sustained. The Maori and half-caste on whose evidence alone he was convicted, are shown to have been guilty of gross perjury, and the verdict of the jury to have been wrong so far as it found Tricker guilty of committing the muider on the day specified in the indictment. The Committee, however, does not go so far as to say that he did not do it during the night preceding; but as this was proved to be impossible from the first, and was not in any way attempted to be proved on the trial, the decision of the Committee amounts, to all in tents and purposes, to a verdict of Not Guilty.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 700, 15 July 1869, Page 2
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196THE CASE OF WALTER TRICKER. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 700, 15 July 1869, Page 2
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