WANGANUI.
, "Yesterday. In the case of Francis Williamson, sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at the District Court yesterday for perjury, a petition for appeal to the Governor is being got up on the ground that the. verdict of the jury was not justified. The prisoner swore in the recent civil case <at the Supreme Court that a certain native was alive in 1872, and a mass of native evidence was called to prove he died in 1869. A document is said to be in possession of the Bank of New Zealand, it is alleged, signed by the deceased native in 1872, and it is said other evidence can be brought forward. Great interest is taken in the matter, and the Press ridicules the verdict, contending that there is not sufficient ground to prove wilful perjury.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4355, 15 December 1882, Page 2
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135WANGANUI. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4355, 15 December 1882, Page 2
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