SUPREME COURT PROCEEDINGS.
(PBES3 ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAM.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Sept. 4. The Grand Jury spent the greater portion of the afternoon in considering the indictment against John Jarvies Gillies of being tho perpetrator of the explosion at Messrs Nathan and Co.'s dried milk factory at Bunnythorpe. At throe o'clock the foreman returned to the Court to ask his Honour's ruling on the point as to whether a majority could return a bill. His Honour replied in tho affirmative. Some thirty minutes later the foreman and jury returned to their benches, and tho foreman, in reply to the Registrar, said the jury, by a majority, had found "no bill" against the accused. His Honour said ho would have to accept the decision. He added that if tho evidence submitted before the Grand Jury was the samo as that tendered in tho Lower Court, there had been a great failure of justice. Gillies was in the Court at the time. Numerous friends at once congregated around him and shook hands with him.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12591, 6 September 1906, Page 5
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