CHARGES FAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1941, Page 5

CHARGES FAIL.

; COMPLAINT BY WOMAN; I I | SISTER ACCUSES BROTHER.! • (0.C.1 Nl-;W PLYMOUTH. tlii> day. ' Charges of stealing £.'?.")0 and of the use of violence again<-t l.eo Oliver Per-! ; reaux and his wife. Freda Lilian ! Perreaux. were, dismissed bv Mr. W. 11. ! Woodward. S.M.. in the New Plymouth j Court after a hearing that lasted three |days. The charges related to allesed 'occurrences at the home, of accused on February 24, Mrs. Annie Easter Salaman, Ferroaux's sister, being the com-l 'plainant.

| Perreaux denied tlie accusations and :>aid that Mrs. Salanian had promised jliiiu £">OO for services and had handed £400 over to him quite quietly, there jhaving been no trouble between them., jPerreaux said that he still had the I i money, and produced 80 £.i notes. After .careful checking it was agreed that the* j money was £20 short. Perreaux said jthat the money had been handed over in two lots, £10it and £.'?.">(•, and that lie had not counted it. I Mr. A. A. Bennett. for the. accused, submitted that the evidence showed the ;case was a dispute between a brother and a sister over a dead husband. He .said Mrs. Salaman had regretted pro- | mising her brother £.".00 and had | endeavoured to reduce it to £200, but on ; her brother persisting she was uot pre|pa red to insist on a reduction that she | knew was not right and had paid out !£4.->O. I