THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY CASE IN WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Issue 3725, 20 July 1882, Page 2

THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY CASE IN WELLINGTON.

The Case Sent For Trial.

;b_ telegraph-own correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, this day. The extraordinary conspiracy case waa continued yesterday before Mr Wardell, K.M. —Annie Morrison, a little girl, wa3 called, and said .he lived in the Tinakore Road with her father, a contractor. She met Jenny Adams (the little girl alleged to have been assaulted, and now charged as one of the conspirators) after George Longhurst had baen convicted, when Jenny said it was not George Longhurst but George Humphrey who had " done it," but that she had been told to say it was Longhurst. .he was quite sure about thin, and remembered it distinctly.-Cross-examined : She could not recollect what mouth it was when this conversation took place, nor whether it waa summer or winter, dry or wet.—George Laurie, fishmonger, was ex- | aminod, and deposed to having heard Adams make a statement to the effect that he would allow his little girl to make o statement, which would clear Longhurst, for £100. Adam, afterwards told witness that he had re-considered the matter, and that all he had told witness on the 25th of May, the date on which the conversation is alleged to have taken place, was false, and that it his little girl made any other statement than what she had alrc.dy made in evidence, it would bo lie*. Witne-l thereupon rejoined that if tho little girl would havo to prepare herself to clear Longhurst, Adam_ h-d better have nothing to do with it.—Mr Ollivier then addressed the Court for the defence, aud submitted that the evidence was not such as to justify a committal, and that as committing these parties for trial meant a re-opening of the case of Geeorgc Longhurst, who had, after a full investigation of the facts, been convicted by a jury beforo the Supreme Court, and also for the la«t two years had been undergoing his sentence ; ther-fore the Magistrate would hesitate befsre taking the step which involved so grave an issue. Counsel for the defence farther sabmitted that tbe prosecution had entirely failed to bring evidence in support of tho caie as opened by Mr Shaw, and that such evidence os had been produced was really not admissible against both parties in Bupportof the charge of conspiracy, bnt at moat amounted to an adn_is>l.n which could only be relied npon as agaiust (he person who made it, and was no evidence at all against a conspirator. Having cited authorities in support of his contention, Bis Worship replied that tho case for the prosecution did not rest solely o* the admission alleged to have been made by the accused, but that the Independent evidence of Dr. Collins was sufficient to satisfy him that it was expedient that a further trial should be granted. The two defendants, James Jonathan Adams, and Genevieve Elizabeth Adams, wero then formally committed to take their trial. The char, o against Mrß Eli.-both Adams will not be proceeded with.