A TAILOR'S BILL.
CRIMINAL INSTEAD OF CIVIL ACTION. Auckland, August 20. A tall, well-dressed man named Warwick William Wood was arraigned at the Supreme Court to-day on a charge of obtaining two suits of clothes from a tailor named William Voting by falsi: pretences, and with intent to defraud. Mr. Justice Edwards, in summing-up, said he did nut think it was safe to convict, and commented upon what he termed a nasty aspect of the case—the bringing of the criminal law to enforce what was really a. civil claim. The jury without, retiring returned a verdict of not guilty, and Wood was thereupon discharged".
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 29 August 1908, Page 6
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104A TAILOR'S BILL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 29 August 1908, Page 6
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