TWO MURDER CHARGES.
JURIES DISAGREE. *y Cable—Press Association —Copyright Received 12, 11.40 p.m. Calcutta, March 12. A sensation was caused in the High -Court when the jury of six Indians and three Europeans acquitted a student •named Roy on a charge of murdering Inspector Ghose, by six votes to three, and acquitted him of the murder of a •pcctator by five votes to four. They were unable to agree on the question «f culpable homicide of the spectator. Tl\e judge ordered a re trial. The defene^ argued that Roy's case ■hod been prejudiced ov the police pubMely giving rewards to witnesses of the crime for capturilig the accused, whom the police styled the murderer.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 217, 13 March 1914, Page 5
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114TWO MURDER CHARGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 217, 13 March 1914, Page 5
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