STOLEN GOODS LEFT IN HOUSE
REASONABLE EXPLANATION VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, November 19. Thomas Alick Ellis, at the Supreme Court to-day, pleaded not gulity to having broken into the shops of William Trigging, Temuka. and of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association at Leeston and Oxford, and stealing goods. He also pleaded not guilty to having in each case received goods knowing that they had been dishonestly obtained. Mr A. T. Donnelly, Crown Prosecutor, said that Ellis got into touch with a man who broke into the shops. The only question was whet.lier he was guilty of receiving. The case against him was not by any means a strong one. His Honour said that an explanation given by Ellis was a reasonable one, and ho had refused to have anything to do with the goods. Mr Donnelly said that he did not think that the jury could be asked to convict. His Honour said that Ellis’s statement showed that another man brought the goods into his house. Ellis’s anxiety was to get rid of them and they were sent to the railway station. Tho jury should not convict. Without retiring the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 6
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200STOLEN GOODS LEFT IN HOUSE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 6
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