POLICEMAN’S TRIAL

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1930, Page 4

POLICEMAN’S TRIAL

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CHRISTCHTTRCH, May 8. In thb case in which the constable

W,.0 c.H.fcew, Vv.io' feiVell DV representatives of ~the shopkeepers concerned that the goods in the pos- 'j. session of the police were identical with goods .which had been in their stocks, and which. K had been missed without having been sold. Gladys Myrtle , . Johansson said' she !>nd been ; engaged, .to the accused. The marriage „hadi ibpen arranged for June 26th of last: year, but the engagement owns broken off in .soveinher, following a quarrel, during which witness threatened -to go to the Superintendent of Police. Thejac-. ■ •used had, bronught a fur coat to her one night sayiiig that it was. a wedMmg present. Witness had bought the coat from Wilson for £ls. ’She bad also got tW$ tffiocks and T a box or "littery frofn accused. ( ’ of Greymoutb, said that on ’March 17th, he saw the accused At - ’ Auckland, and showed him the" coat' and frocks.. Wilson denied hatbhjd 1 given Miss-Jo-hansson the articles 1 . Witness exam-H* ined tin* accused .jptace of residence \ and he discovered there a motor tyre ' lever sharpened. | The jury rethrhecl,'after one hour, announcing that were unable to

agree. . .- ~t . His Honour inf them that he was unable to accept a disagreement until they had been,in retirement for four hours.

Later the - jury'returned with a verdict of not gu,iltv, ; pn all counts.,