HOKITIKA SUPREME COURT.
William Potham, who was convicted on Tuesday of cattle stealing, was convicted again on Wednesday on the second charge. On the third charge the challenges made exhausted the panel. The names challenged by the Crown w r ere put in the box again, and on the first name being challenged the Judge called on the Crown Prosecutor to assign cause. Mr South made a statement that, from reliable information from an official source, the prisoners' friends were tampering with jurymen from Hokitika, Stafford, and Ross, but declined to prove it in the case of any individual juryman. Ultimately the prisoner was remanded for sentence. Stephen Cattle pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to commit suicide, and waS sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The grand jury found no true bill in the case of Curie, charged with libel, nor in the case of Thomas O'Neill, charged with feloniously wounding cattle, and also with maliciously killing cattle.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 951, 23 March 1872, Page 2
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159HOKITIKA SUPREME COURT. Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 951, 23 March 1872, Page 2
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