JURY DISAGREE
I , ; ' l a ; > ; . >• M.! ' I TARANAKI THEFT. (By Telegraph—Per press Association.) . NEW PLYMOUTH, November 28. After a trial lasting two days, tin jury to-night failed to agree on, the charges against William . PmeiVa! Leonard Knight, of, stealing, .postal packets from eight post .boxes, in New Plymouth, and 'four at StratJorcl, and in addition with attempting tp., break and'outer a chemist’s, shop ,at Waitara;. A re-trial was ordered. ... . , ~ Raymond J. V. Elliott;..had .pre.yiously• pleaded ‘.guilty to., similar,, charges, and iie and his wifyalleggd That inej had been present with, Knight during the commission of the offences, .Thej said that all of the boxes had beer smashed open with a tyre lever, and that several hundreds ol letters had been taken, opened, and thrown awaj, after some postal notes and bank notes had been extracted. I
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1929, Page 3
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136JURY DISAGREE Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1929, Page 3
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