CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 292, 7 December 1920, Page 7

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

CONCLTTDING CASES HEARD. "TOTE" CLERKS ACQUITTED. ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY

Not guilty -was the verdict returned •by the jury sitting under Mr. Justice Cooper at the Supreme Court yesterday, when William Tobin and Samuel Ward I Mr. A. Moody) stood their second trial on a charge of having stolen £f> from the proprietors of the Avondale totalisator on October 2.

The jury's deliberations were of brief duration, and, on their acquitting the accused, the two prisoners were discharged.

The last case of the session? was that in which John Reid and Annie Craddock (Mr. R. A. Singer! were charged with having assaulted and robbed Roderick McNeil of about £39. on September 22, or alternatively that they stole the

A plea of not guilty was tendered

Mr. R. P. Hunt, for the Crown, stated that McNeil was introduced to Reid by an acquaintance, and a fishing expedition was arranged. The three men went out to a fishing boat, where they found Craddock and a young man. Later McNeil asked Reid to put him ashore. The two men and (raddock got into the dinghy, from which McNeil and Craddock went to another fishing boat, Reid £oing ashore. On Reid's return he attacked McXeil and held him while Craddock took from McNeil's pocket his bank-ibook containing about £39. Later Reid returned the Ibank-book, saying. "There you are, Mac: you're all right now"