JURY DISAGREES
Second Trial Of Timber
Merchant (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. February 24.
After a retirement of nearly four hours a jury in the Supreme Court today failed to agree in the case of Henry Banks, timber merchant, aged 39, who was charged, with alleged false pretence. It was the second trial of Banks, the jury also failing to agree at the first trial. Both trials lasted four days. When the disagreement was announced today, Mr. A. W. Brown, for the Crown, moved for a-third trial, and the application was granted by Mr. Justice Northcroft. The charge against Banks was that on February 28, 1943, at Christchurch, he had with intent to defraud obtained from the United States Joint Purchasing Board the sum of £2BO/1/3 for the Papanui Timber Company, by means of a certain false pretence, by falsely representing that the grade .or quality or timber supplied by that company to the board was higher or better than the grade or quality of the vaid timber in fact was.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 128, 25 February 1944, Page 6
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