ALIBI ESTABLISHED

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 13

ALIBI ESTABLISHED

Burglary Charge Fails ,

By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, November 21,

Charged with breaking and entering the warehouse of Ellison and Duncan, LtdPort Ahuriri, on the night of July 25, and stealing cash, cheque, postal notes and other articles to the total value of £ll5 16/7, Allan Arthur Mclntosh (Mr. C. W. Nash) was found not guilty in the Supreme Court, before Mr. justice Blair to-day. For the defence Mr. Nash produced witnesses to prove accused left a shop where he was employed at 9 o’clock in the evening, and went to a friend’s place, where he stayed until three o’clock the following morning. Mclntosh’s mother gave evidence to the effect that she heard her son return home shortly before four o’clock. For the prosecution, Mr. H. B. Lusk stated accused’s alibi was not complete, because various witnesses were not quite positive of the tithes of accused’s movements. and that the difference of half an hour would be quite sufficient for him to have committed a crime. When arrested, accused had in his possession a manicure set similar to one missing from Ellison and Duncan’s, and a postal note for eighteennence, which had been in the firm’s office. <

The jury returned a verdict of not guilty after onh hour’s deliberation.