SUPREME COURT.
TWO ACQUITTALS, By Telegraph—Press Association. PALMERbTON N., May 31. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Cooper, George Murray, a railway porter at Karioiv a small station four miles from Ohakune, was charged with the theft of five £5 notes, the property of R. P. Bailey, of Karori, Wellington. The notes were posted, in a letter by Mrs Boyle, of Ohakune, and delivered to another R. Bailey, a rail way ganger at Karioi. The latter gave the notes to the accused to return to the post office. A Maori stated that the accused gave him four notes for change for a five pound note, and added a sovereign same days later. The defence denied that the accused had any transaction with this Maori. Murray stated that he put the letter on the railway counter, and never saw it again. The jury fnund a verdict of not guilty, on thu ground of insufficient evidence as to who took the notes. Albert George Steward, tailor, of Feilding, a bankrupt, was acquitted on a charge of incurring debts without reasonable expectation of being able to pay them.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10058, 1 June 1910, Page 5
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187SUPREME COURT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10058, 1 June 1910, Page 5
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