Alleged Perjury.
[ran PBBBB ASSOCIATION. J
Auckland, This day
There has been a strange development in a perjury case which has occupied the Police Court several days. Some time ego Abraham Bowden was oharged, tried, and convicted of assaulting another cabman named Dawson. Tho Magistrate, Mr Nortbcroft, directed the proeecution of Bowden for perjury. The defence produced a number of witnesses chiefly oibmen (Bowden'a employee), who ewore that the assault was committed by Samuel Given, who himself admitted such was the oas9. It was stated that between ten and eleven o'clock at night Bowdeo, Dawson, and Given, were driving op Queen street, when Given, and not Bowden, etruok Daweon with his whip. The Crown Prosecutor, in his crose- examination, laid stress upon the fact that none of th*se witnesses had mentioned Given'e name in the assault case, though Bowden, whose cabs they were driving, was oonvioted of assault. The oase is proceeding. Later. Abrahim Bowden wai committed for irial on the charge of perjury. Bail was allowed, wbioh vac immediately forthcoming. _______
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7204, 30 October 1894, Page 3
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