SECOND TRIAL FAILS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1920, Page 4

SECOND TRIAL FAILS.

AVONDALE TOTALISATOR OABB. ACCUSED NOT GUILTY. ' By T»l«paph.~Pt«M A»6osUttol Auckland) Last At the Supreme Coutt to*day, ttro totaiisator employees, William Tobin and Samuel Ward, appeared toiHW their second trial on a charge o! hiving stolen £9, the property ,of Harry J. Hayr, a l . Avondaie, on October i. , Al- » ternsitivs charges of.theft and *hftVi>g • fraudulently omitted to accpunt ,for money received on the totalisator at Avondale were also preferred' atfftidataicused- The first tti&l of accVfed heard on November 23 ajyl 21 lisnr* the Chief Justice, when the jury {itfittl to agree. Evidence similar to that nt (he first tiial was tendered. The the Crown rested upon tWo tr&#»actions, in one of which ft 810 and in the other a £5 hote werf }}4|ded in f«t a window of tHe totallttior whore the two accused were employed/ no change' being received by the pwifins who handed them in. . . Both accused gave evidence deftjrlhg any guilty intention, Tobin Stated that. lie gave the £lO nptfe to Ward to hold in case anyone came buck Ihd chimed it. Ward stated that when Hayr spoke to him about the £lO note lie immediately produced it and handed it to Hayr. When Tobin gave him the £lO note he told witness to give it to the owner if he called, for it and to collect CI. Evidence as to (hrtracter was called. ■ After a short retirement, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoners were discharged.