THE PLEIADES INQUIRY.
ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE ASSESSORS.
(By Telegraph;— Press Association.) ;
WELLINGTON, Thursday.
When the Court sat to-day to deliver judgment in the Pleiades case, Mr Wardell, S.M., said it hardly appeared to be recognised that these enquiries were of a judicial character, for men of social standing and of high position, in commercial life had so far forgotten, themselves as to bring personal influence to bear upon assessors, and to appeal on grounds of friendship for consideration for persons whose conduct was being in'qxiired into. Both. assessors then sitting' had been approached in this manner, and by different parties. He. thought it necessary to mention it, in order to check what, if allowed to continue, would be a very serious matter, interfering* as it did with the course of justice.
Mr Grayq (for Captain Burton) said he was not aware of the "occurrence, and if any such thing was done on. behalf of his client, it was not witht his (Captain Burton's) consent and knowledge.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 273, 17 November 1899, Page 3
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