The Bunnythorpe Explosion.
NO TRUE BIEL. VIEW OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Palmerston North, Sep. 4. The grand jury spent the greater portion of the afternoon in considering the indictment against John Jarvis Gillies of being the perpetrator of the explosion at Nathan and Co.’s dried milk factory at Bunnythorpe. At 3 o’clock the foreman returned to the Court to ask his Honor’s ruling on the point as to whether a majority could return a bilk. Elis Honour replied in the affirmative. Some thirty minutes later the foreman and jury returned to their benches and the foreman in reply to-the registrar said the jury by a majority had found “ no bill” against the accused. His Honour said he would have to accept the decision. He added that if the evidence submitted before the grand jury was the same as that tendered in the Lower Court, then there had been a great failure of justice. Gillies was in the Court at the time, and numerous friends at once congregated around him and shook hands with him.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3708, 6 September 1906, Page 3
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174The Bunnythorpe Explosion. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3708, 6 September 1906, Page 3
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