SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4355, 27 February 1893, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

Remarkable Case. [By Telegraph.—Pro33 Association,] Napier, Saturday. Tlio criminal business of the Supremo Court was concluded yesterday. James Renrdon, charged with unlawfully woundiug at Dauevirke, was acquitted. Benjamin Goodman, charged with larceny as a bailee, also got off. A peculiar point was argued yesterday. a man was charged witPfyliiig a chep for .£2O. After ho stolo it ho bought somo boots at Uaunah's, getting tho balance in cash, He then went to the ollico ol Sir William Wasteneys, solicitor, who was out, but tho man told tho clerk that he was likely to bo arrested for stealing tho cheque, and he deposited £lO tor bis defence, leaving instructions for Sir William Wastenoys to see him injgaol if arrested. When ho was urreated Wasteneys thought he. had bettor not appear under the circumstances, and another solicitor was engaged, In the lower Court tho Justices admitted the evidence of W steneys 1 clerk, despite a legal protest that tho communication was privileged, and decided to admit thereupon pleaded WfflnyyYesterday, Mr oainsbury, on behalf of Aloxander Grant, draper, the diawer of the cheque, from whom it was stolon, unpin d Hint tlio £lO in Wußtonoys' hands and the balauco of the cash found on tho prisoner should be handed over to Grant. His Honour said if the cheque had not been cashed he would have made an order, but it was now questionable to whom tho money proporly belonged, and the application was adjourned.