JURY DISAGREES.
CHARGE AGAINST EX-EMPLOYEE. [TEE PEfISB BpecUl Service.] WELLINGTON, February 3. The jury failed to agree in the Su« preme Ccurt to-day when Thomas O'Utrawas charged before tho Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett, with at* tempting to break and enter a -warehouse with intent; to commit theft. Hearing a noise and investigating, two clerks in, the New Zealand Fanners' Distributing Company found two nicu, each of whom was a previous em* ployec of the firm, standin." beneath a broken window. When ttsfcod what they were doing, the men ran over ths railway line, one of them being knocked down by a passing train and seri* ously injured. ' The accused stated to a detective that his companibn broke the window out of spite. A new trial was ordered for Monday, bail being allowed conditional on accused reporting to tho police daily.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18917, 4 February 1927, Page 10
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