PAEKAKARIKI SAFE ROBBERY
THOMSON ACQUITTED. The trial of James Cecil Oliver Thomson on charges of theft ’of 112 sovereigns and £5l in silver, and of having received 28 sovereigns knowing the same to have been stolen, was 'concluded in the Supreme Court vest terclay before Mr. Justice Chapman and a jury of twelve. Mr. P: S. K. Maoassev appeared on behalf of the Crown, and Mr. H. F. O’Leary for the prisoner. Tho evidence was chiefly that of Biel and Carmichael, and was similar to that given bv them in previous trials conr.cctod with tlie Paekarakiri safe robbery, •Tho jury retired at 3.35 p.m. and returned at 7.45 p.m. with a verdict of not guilty*
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 270, 10 August 1922, Page 8
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115PAEKAKARIKI SAFE ROBBERY Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 270, 10 August 1922, Page 8
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