A STRANGE CASE.
A JUDGE'S COMMENTS. (Received April 17,11.25 a.m.) ■Brisbane, April 17. Robt. Isaacs, formerly teller of the Georgetown branch of the Bank of N.S. Wales, was found not guilty at tho local District Court of tho larceny of £250 of the Bank's money. The Judge in addressing tho prisoner said tho jury had brought in a verdict of not guility, but it was the most corrupt verdict ever given by a jury in any Court in Queensland, He should make it his duty to ask the Attorney-General whether it was not necessary, for the protection of the honest portion of the community to withdraw from the people of the district the right to try criminals, Isaacs was afterwards arrested and found guilty of the embezzlement of a hundred pounds,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5002, 17 April 1895, Page 2
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131A STRANGE CASE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5002, 17 April 1895, Page 2
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