THE COLCHESTER MYSTERY.
o (By Telegraph. — Press Association,- . WANGANUI,' Tuesday. "I In the Supreme Court this aftert noon, Mr G. T. Fitzherbert mentioned, that he had received a telegram fromß Mr Bell, the Crown Prosecutor, at Wellington, and another from tmM Skerrett, asking him to request . .-M*s--i Justice Edwards to deliver the M$M ment of the Supreme Court in tha-■ Lilly white extradition case. Tb®c Court was moved for a writ- ot^ ; ; habeas corpus, with the view of cbs- M charging the prisoner Lilljnvhite'^ from custody, he having been* com- M mitted by the magistrate at Welling* j ton, under the provisions of the Fugl" M tive Offenders Act, 1881. Mr Justice ~ Edwards first delivered the judgment- m of the Chief Justice, from which «c * dissented, and then read his °^jl' , ■judgment, which was contrary :-*%m that of the Chief Justice. The 'Wmm ion of the Court being divided, Wt'result presumably will be that, a* m order on the motion for a rule 0 * ' ; lute will not be made, and the p*'s* ; : oner will be extradited in accordttnct ; with the decision of the magistrate;';"-: 1.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 49, 27 February 1901, Page 4
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