CHARGE AGAINST FATHER
PROSECUTION BREAKS DOWN DAUGHTER SAYS STORY UNTRUE. Per Press Association. CH-RLSTCHURCH, November 17. A prosecution at J_he Supreme Court to-day broke down owing to the attitude of tho principal witness for the Crown, a girl who had given evidence in the lower court against her father on serious charges. The witness said bet* previous evidence was untrue, ami denied that anybody had approached her to alter her story. In reply to questions by the Crown Prosecutor, the witness t*aid s-he could not remember, and the prisoner was discharged at Mr Justice Stringer’s direction.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 3
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96CHARGE AGAINST FATHER New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 3
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