DRAMA IN COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8832, 7 June 1907, Page 1

DRAMA IN COURT.

A dramatic scene marked the acquittal, at Neath Police Court, of Giles Jones, a colliery manager and former member of the Board of Guardians, who has been remanded several times in custody on a charge of burglary at a grocer’s shop and the theft of £ l.

Mr W.' 11. David, the solicitor for the defence, spent some hours on Saturday night endeavouring to elucidate the mystery of a pair of pincers, on which the police were relying, and about midnight he found the actual burglar in a Neath slum.

At the close of his address in Court Mr David announced that he would call as a witness the person who committed the burglary. David Jones, a youth, then stepped into the box, and gave a detailed

account of the burglary, describing how he entered the premises and his subsequent movements. Prosecuting 1 counsel stated that ho was satisfied that the boy’s story was true, and I left the matter in the hands of the I Bench,

The Mayor, in discharging Giles Jones, said he would leave the Court free from stigma. There had, he said, been severe criticism of the police, but ho was bound to say that the solicitor for the defence had proved himself more clever than the police.