KIDMAN'S INDICTMENT.
HEXJ> VALID BY HIGH COURT. STATE'S WIDE POWERS. ( Received P.o a.m. i i MELBOURNE, this day. The Hiffh Court has delivered ju.lrment in the conspiracy rase agimit \rthur I Kidman and others. The pull Bench of six judees held that the indictii-en' was i valid in common law Five diss, n'.cd from the Chief Justice's opinion that under the conßtitiiti.-.n a law cool,l r.ct he passed after an Art had been committed declaring the person who committed it | guilty of a crime and liable to punishI ment. I Kidman was char-jed with having put I in false tenders for (cvemment contracts lin connection with the feeling of the troops. It was stated that tenders were put in under fictitious names, the idea I being that if a man were not successful I under his own name one of the tenders he had put in under a false name might catch the contract. It was stated at the , trial that the practice was quite common ] in Australia.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 222, 17 September 1915, Page 6
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