TAXIMAN IN DOCK
JURY TWICE DISAGREES DRUNKEN MAN’S MONEY Press Association. NAPIER, To-day. Two juries have disagreed at the Supreme Court sessions in the case in which Arthur Harry Wilson, taxi proprietor, of Hastings, is charged with the theft of £l7 from John Reid, Hastings. The question of a third trial has been held over till to-morrow morning by Mr. Justice Ostler. It was alleged by the Crown that Reid, after embarking with Wilson on a drinking bout, engaged accused to drive him in his taxi from Hastings to Fernhill, a few miles away. Reid remembered nothing till he woke up in a lonely house, when he discovered that he had been robbed. The defence held that accused started out to drive Reid to Fernhill, but when half-way on the journey Reid decided to return. Wilson, not knowing Reid’s address, dropped him in town, Reid then being hopelessly drunk.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 1
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149TAXIMAN IN DOCK Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 1
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