A REMARKABLE CASE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10666, 22 June 1912, Page 5

A REMARKABLE CASE

FOREMAN OF JURY AND ACCUSED PERSONS. VISIT TO' POLICE CELLS. (By Telegraph—Tress Association.J BLENHEIM, Lost Night. When, the Supreme Court resumed this morning, for the cotn'tiiiu'atioii. of iblie heairing of the contgwracy charges against Binley and Walsh, mattc-lls took a scmewh'ait sensational form. The Grown Prosecutor intimated to his Honour that he had been informed by the sergeant of ppiice that- the foreman of the jury Clarke) visited the police station- last night, and 'interviewed the prisoners. His Honorn- then entered upon a .sjearebing inquiry into the matter, examining several members of the police force and Clarke on oath. It wais stated that Clarke, with another, aippiroaehed accused in the cor•r&ddr of tho ipoliee ceSs, and wa.s ordered off the brcmises by the ser- j geant. It was also mentioned that a j 'bottle of whisky -was, found in possesmoil of the prisoners. Clkrko explained that he strongly 'hieild the opinion ■ that; Ithe prisoners should not be detained cVgiwl for the , ''iright,' ifcid 'after failon g in. Iks . efforts 1 to ohtaiw their release, went down to see if they were all right. He (knew nothing about the whisky. He 'did not consider he had dcme anything inlpii-c>pe,r. < The Judge treated the matter as of serious import, alnd with great regret applied, .for the first time in the %jstc,ry of the Dominion, section 43i \-Ji the Grimer, Aiot, and discharged the ljury. The case 'was tlm© put off till (next seesicms. Wiifch reference ,to the supply ul 1 *\vh:is>ky, counscß for Wakh wwd tluvt pa man in court wftf prepared to say fliat he gave tike vh'lsiky to the pi'M- 1 omere.. The' Jradge raid he" preferred to leave the investigation of that parr of the episode to the Grown Pro>e- j cuto.r.