TRIAL OF WIMSETT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 2

TRIAL OF WIMSETT.

VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. . WELLINGTON, September 1. The fifth day of the trial of Arthur F. Wimeett, charged with jomplicity in th« robbery at the Parcels Post Office iii January last, was entered upon to-day. The accused's wife related a conversation, she had with Hemingway in the gaol. Witness spoke of her husband's arrest, and asked Hemingway what be' was going to do. Hemingway replied : "I am going into the box -to give Wimsett five solid years, as he has given to me." She replied : " How can you do that ?" Hemingway answered : " 1 am 'n for five years, what with your giving tip stuff to the detectives and Arthur with his long tongue telling the detectives I was in Sydney."' He added that a detective told him that Wimeett had given the information away. Several witnesses testified to the good character of Wimsett. The trial came to a conclusion this afternoon. Without leaving the box the jury found Wimsett not guilty, adding that the trial left no etain pn. his character.

A wreath preserved in ice is to Ibe shipped to London this week by* I the Wellington Branch of the Navy, ' League. It is to commemorate the | hundred-and-fourth anniversary 'of Nel*. son's victory at Trafalgar., - and ', is to' bY : placed on the Nelson statue ' in Traf alga** square. Tlie wreath is composed of bushi | clematis, lycopodiUnJ, and various ferns, ake ake, totara, and rimu foliage, ana bul-a-bul berries. The Wellington Meat Export Company, which is encasing the wreath in ice, and the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, which will transport it, j are not charging for their services.