CONSPIRACY CHARGES
AGAINST TELEGRAPHISTS. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) GISBORNE, Oct. 16. Up to the luncheon ad'ournment the Magistrate’s Court had heard the evidence of five witnesses on lines very similar to those in the previous information against McKinnon and Fountain.
On resuming, after lunch, the Magistrate, Mr P. H. Harper, intimated that, in view pf the nature of the evidence, and its similarity to that in the case against McKinnon and Fountain, which was dismissed on Monday, it was useless to proceed further with the hearing. Detective McLeod intimated that he would offer no further evidence, and the informations were dismissed.
The Magistrate commented that the gravest suspicion rented noon the 'three men, but he thought that more than that was necessary to send them to trial. He did not see that anv good could he arrived at by proceeding further, as he was afraid there was nothing more than the gravest suspicion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1929, Page 5
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153CONSPIRACY CHARGES Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1929, Page 5
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