SUPREME COURT
JURIES tTRIt TO AGREE. (By Telegraph —Press A ssocAation.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, the jury failed to agree in tlhe case in which Frederick William Green, late Secretary of the Wellington Wooing Men's Club, Was charged with stealing £175 belonging to the Club. The case will he re-tried to-morrow. The jury also failed to agree concerning the prosecution of William Frederick ijtor.es, charged with forgery. The defence set up was mistaken identity. •Hie case will be taken again during the current sitting of the court. I " : I (By Telegraph —Press Association.) I TIMAR.U, i>a.st Night. At the sitting of the Supreme 'Court only one criminal case was completed. • . 1 W. Evans, n young man with one leg, was convicted of house-breaking and thefts at Rakaia and Wasbdyke. A list of previous convictions for similar offences was produced, and Judge Denniston sentenced him to five years' imprisonment, and declari ed him a habitual criminal. A charge of the theft of a bicycle ibrought against W. N. Clansen, over which the jury disagreed at the last session, was begun, but not completed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10552, 7 February 1912, Page 5
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