SUBORNATION CHARGES

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20496, 12 May 1938, Page 7

SUBORNATION CHARGES

DIVORCE ACTION CEQUEL BOUTEREY ARRAIGNED (By Telegrapn.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, WednesdayArising out of the divorce proceedings undertaken by Anthony George Bouterey against his wife, Coral Pearl Bouterey, on the grounds of adultery, in the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on August 27, 1937. Bouterey stood in the dock this morning faced with two charges of suborning to perjury. Bouterey pleaded not guilty. The Crown prosecutor, Mr A. W. Brown, said Bouterey was charged with procuring or persuading two men, Douglas William Dyer and Cyril Wilfred Stanley, to give false evidence in court. The Jury’s task would be to decide whether the two men gave false evidence, and, if so did they do it at Bouterey’s instigation. The evidence would be that Bouterey concocted the story with Dyer and Stanley to the effect that they attended parties on bpard the launch Phyllis at Napier, where on three occasions they saw .Mrs Bouterey commit adultery. Later Dyer went to the police and said he had never been in Napier in his life and never seen what he described'in court. When interviewed by the police Stanley made similar admissions. Bouterey, in a statement ‘to the police, denied the charges. Evidence on these lines is proceeding.