THE BUNNYTHORPE OUTRAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81840, 5 September 1906, Page 2

THE BUNNYTHORPE OUTRAGE.

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

HAS THERE BEEN A FAILURE - OF JUSTICE?

(Per Press Association.) Palmerston N. September 5. The grand jury spent the greater portion of the afternoon in considering the indictment against John -Jarvies GiUies, of being the perpetrator of the explosion at Nathan and Co.'s dried iriilk factory at Bunnythorpe. At three o'clock the , foreman returned to the Court to?ask His Honor's ruling on the point as to whether a majority could return a Bill. His Honor replied in the affirmative. Some thirty minutes later, the jury returned to their benches, and, the foreman, in reply to the Regisirar, said the jury, by a majority, had found "No bill" against the accused. His Honor said he would have to accept the decision. He added that if the evidence submitted before the grand jury was the same as that tendered in the Lower Court then there had been a great failure o'f justice. Gillies was in the Court at the time, and numerous friends at once congregated around him and shook hands with him. The decision on the whole seemed to give sur< prise. . .