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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 14

ABRUPT END.

CASE IN COURT. EVIDENCE UNFINISHED. JURY ACQUITS ACCUSED. With evidence uncompleted. uTnl witii addressee to the jury still In Iμ- ii'.ul--. a ciicc ii: the Ciiiirt this muniin;; rami' tn mi ;»I>ruj>t rn<l. \\ lirii (hi: ( nurt reuwniMed nftcr tin 1 mid iiiurniriir lu-onk, w 11i< 11 I'»>U plui'i , lit I I ...11. I lir foroiiiMii of t lie jury ;*ll noillli I'll 1 ll.tr lie nil.l Ilix r.)l|.-;lvlllM Ilil 1 c< iii 11' tn ii uiiii iiiiii"ii~ ili"i-imi. l'i\i' mirntli-M hit it tin- arrnsi-d left lII'- iliK'k a fi i'P niii ii. The <■ i<l , " it* Din , in w liicli i i'i'iii ,u>' Henry Kill I cms. iigi-d ill Wiiiv. vMi-i rliiiriji'il In-fore Mr. .liu-tii-i- (jillim v\ itli iri'li'iTiii l\- t* —-*sinlfliiix ii L'ii I nacil fi'vcn year* ;ini| three niDiitliH. Mr. Milt tlwws, wlin ii|)[)i'iiri'd fur tin , aci-iiicd. limc! two innri , wit lie-*! ,, * tn i-.ill. nnd when he whs about tc> cull one i»f thftn. hiw FTninir «aid In- understood tliat tin , foreman of tin , jury luid something to siiy. "Ypk." iffiinifil the fofpmnti. "Would yciii nllnvv ii- 4 tn ccniic to ii. dci-iisinn ? W'v tliink ue haw hoard enough evidenee, iiml v.c him , ninip to ii ininiiiiii'MiH dpi'ixiiiti." II in Honor s;ii<l tlint depcndcfl ciii wh-it tin , dpi i~ioii mii*. If it was ;<■_::iiM ~t the Kcciisi'd it would U , iillfiiir to imiki , up their iniin 1-4 without hearing tin- of liim i'iihh, li'. mi tliP other hand, they considered tlint thp (town's cane was tint etrnnpf enough, that wns a different mat tor. Tin , Fnmniiii: That in the position. air. We do not think there i.-> evidence to convict. In tin , light of that, his Honor ruiil. there di<l not seem to l>e «nv u-p i i carrying thp cn«e further. His Honor «nid ho would dike tin' jllTV"rt int iniiitioii us a verdict of lint guilty, and said Llmt the prisoner uoiill lie discharged.