A STRANGE STORT.
«mgire _W ___rTSST CHKECK. CASES DISMISSED OX EErffiURXSW. (Br Tt9e_rM.-g.TL. —Press Association.) ASHBCTRTON. this day. Some time ago three local residents were .convicted of being rogues and vagabonds as tie result of what the evidence indicated was a drunken scene by night in a Baptist Church. Subsequently, one of them secured a rehearing and was acquitted on the ground that he went' there to look after a friend. To-day a second man, Peter George Gourd ie. secured a y rehearing, on the ground that, though he was sober when he pleaded guilty at the Court next day he was suffering from liquor drank on the previous evening, and was not properly fit to defend himself. A rehearing was granted and was proceeded with. The justices finally dismissed the case, stating that (Jourdie's behaviour was reprehensible, but there was no evidence that he was in tlie church for a criminal i purpose.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 December 1923, Page 11
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154A STRANGE STORT. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 December 1923, Page 11
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