SUPREME COURT TRIALS.
(frsss association telegram.)
INVERCARGILL, February 12. In the Supreme Court, in the case of Hellish and Thomson, charged with stealing 287 sealskins belonging to Joseph Hatch, the jury, after being locked up all night, failed to agree, and were discharged this morning. A fresh trial will probably commence on Monday. ■ The jury in the sealskin case against Newton were locked up for the night, being unable to agree. Hatch's civil action against Waddel and Roberts, who bought the skins in question, be commenced to-morrow. • The Court was occupied this afternoon With a breach of promise case {Valentine v McKillop, claim for £200), but it is not concluded. The engagement of the parties was admitted, but defendant sought to show that the plaintiff was a person of loose morals. Letters, in which compromising statements were made, alleged to have been written by the plaintiff to a former lover, ■were produced, but she denied that she %rote the letters, and asserted her writing tad been imitated. Hatch did not take out a warrant against J4uUay as reported yesterday.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8097, 13 February 1892, Page 6
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