CRIMINAL SESSION. CHARGE AT WELLINGTON. Wellington, July 1.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 3 July 1889, Page 3

CRIMINAL SESSION. CHARGE AT WELLINGTON. Wellington, July 1.

Ma Justicb Richmond,' in an address to the Grand Jury at the opening of the Criminal Session^ said the chief cases of interest" were a charge against a farmer of burning: his own stacks, with alleged intent defraud the Insurance Company, which came under the head of arson, the robbery of a safe from the Feilding Vost Office, and the Kaiwarra murder. It was many years since so grave an offence as the latter occurred in the district. The only question would be who did it. He would not attempt to go into the evidence believing it would be better to be silent on the ' subject. The jury would have to confine themselves to such evidence as was brought before them as developed before the Magistrate. The case was one of circumstantial evidence only. In most murder cases of the worst class there- was seldom an eye witness and the evidence-was, therefore, purely circumstantial. The chargeof trying to pass a' silvered penny as a half-crown against Henry Duncan and Emily Alser is now proceeding. At the Supreme Court Harry Conn, charged with infriiiging the conditions of the probation, had his term extended for tour months longer." Otto Retake pleaded guilty to house- breaking at Purakauri; and sentence was deferred. James Johnston was sentenced to two years with hard labour for' uttering a forged cheque for I*7 on the Bank of New Zealand.

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