The Styche Case.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 130, 30 March 1901, Page 3

The Styche Case.

"YVEi.JiixaroN, March 27. Mr Stringer, continuing his argument in the Styoue case, submitted th.it two vital questions were whether the letters were produced by Styohe's machine, and whether the breakage of the machine was accidental. The machine produced all the peculiarities found in the loiters, and none that were not. " Tin evidence was very strong, though not assented to by all the witnesses, that the breakage was wilful. The above ftvcts alone were sufficient to justify the jury, but there were others. There was the parallelism of the language of the letters and Styche's conversation. The jury, too, had seen accused's deineanour in the witness box. At the interview on the 3rd August he was clearly on his guard. Mr Joynt, in reply, urged thafc|fnl| case was peculiarly one requiring to be dealii with by trained minds, and particularly adapted to review by the. Ouurt. A.« to tho breakage, the jury were not entitled to conclude wilfulness unless the evidence was overwhelming, whereas it was evenly balanced.

The Court reserved judgment,