PROSECUTION FAILS
WITNESS ALTERS STORY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A prosecution in the Supreme Court today broke down owing to the attitude of the principal witness for the Crown, a girl, who had given evidence in the lower court against her father on a serious charge. The witpess said her preview: evidence was untrue. She denied that anybody had approached her to alter her story. In reply to questions by the Crown Prosecutor she said she could not remember. The prisoner was discharged at Mr. Justice Stringer’s direction.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1926, Page 9
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90PROSECUTION FAILS Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1926, Page 9
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