LENGTHY TRIAL
JURY DISAGREES By Telegraph.—Press Association. New Plymouth, November 28. After a trial lasting two days, the jury to-night failed to agree on charges against William Percival Leonard Knight of stealing postal packets from eight post boxes at New Plymouth, and four at Stratford, and in addition with attempting to break and enter a chemist’s shop at Waitara. A re-trial was ordered. 1 Raymond J. V. Elliott had previously pleaded guilty to similar charges, and he and his wife alleged they had been present with Knight during the commission qf the offences. They said all the boxes had been smashed open with a tire lever, nnd several hundreds of letters taken, opened and thrown away after some ilostal notes tind banknotes had been extricated.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 56, 29 November 1929, Page 2
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125LENGTHY TRIAL Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 56, 29 November 1929, Page 2
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