SUPREME COURT.
Wbixihotok, ' Monday, Judge Richmond, in his address to the Grand Jiiry, at the opening of the Criminal Sessions said the chief canea of interest were : A charge against a farmer of burning his own stacks, with tha alleged intent to defraud the Insurance Company, which camo under the head of arson ; the robbery of a safe from the Fielding post office, and the Kaiwarra murder. It was many years ago rince uo grave an offence an the latter occurred in the district. The only question would he who did it. He would not attempt to go into the evidence, believing it would -be better to be silent on the Biibjeet. The jury would have to confine themselves to such evidence as whb lirought before thorn. As developed before: the Magistratn'ii Court it was one of circnmatantiHl' evidence only. In most murder cases of the worst eUss t hc-rn wua Beldom an eye witness, and tho evidence was therefore purely ciruurnstanlial. The charge of trying tu ,ihhb a Bilvercd penny rh h half arown, against Henry Dunonn and Emily Qlaon, is now prooseding.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3244, 1 July 1889, Page 2
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184SUPREME COURT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3244, 1 July 1889, Page 2
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