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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 66, 11 March 1902, Page 2

Tbe Johannesburg correspondent of the A'atal Witness records the conclusion of a murder trial which in normal times would have caused a wide sensation. Themistocles George Laminide-, a Greek, was charged with the m;irder of Maritz Meyers, a well-known Standerton storekeeper, The crime was said to have bsen committed at Standerton on the 4th November last. It was a difficult case, resting on circumstantial evidence. The prosecution alleged that the accused, then caterer for an officers' club at Stam'ertcin, slipped away during a busy quarter of an hour whilst the officers were dining, committal! tho crimo with an officer's revolver that had bien U.ft at tho club, a;.d then returned for duty. Tbe defence relied on an <Uibi., consisting in tho p'e* that tho accused did n«n !eav.-: ho club a. all. The Court, after s v< r.l liny.s t'ial, i c 'nvicte ! the i-.u usuJ »ud sntnc'dj him ro d. ith, but the Greek rtsi'ietits j of Johannesburg are potitiuning the J Ugh Commissioner for a leprieve.. " Tbe chief couus-1 for the d feocu in the cit-e," the iV/Ual Witness currtsp^r- '■ it-ne says, " nas Mr Hutchison, w h i j has been in <he Trausvaul about 18 months. Ho came herd fiom Now; Zealand. He is an able leg>l tnuit, und ' ilready has a gift*'. reputation. In i 7. ice and macner he is much like Mr idr Stunger, K.C. of Nottingham, win.-, is some readers will remember, put up it she last election for Newark. j WADE'S TEE THING POWOfcUS or bibies are soothing, reduce fever ad prerent blotches, .Price, Is,—ADYfc