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.' „ AUCKLAND, Bth May. At the bupreme Court the jury returned a, verdict of not '■ guilty in tile case of Walter Robert M'Mahon, farmer, of Thames, charged with sheep stealing. The defence was that the sheep were running on ;an adjacent property and got mixed with accused's. ■ A verdict of not guilty was returned at the Supreme Court in the case of Clarence Russell and Henry James Abraham, charged with having conspired to defraud Jefferson Davis Edwards of £195, 'and Alexander Percy Young of £245. The case was a rehearing of a trial in' which the jury last session failed to agree: It was alleged that the two accused conspired to induce Edwards and Young to bid for articles of little, value at an "advertising auction," on the understanding that the monoy would be returned. The defence was that the men bid freely,-of their own accord.
DTJNEDIN, Bth May. In the Supreme Court, Thomas Tarnbull -was. acquitted on a charge of as uttuli on a .jjirl of 1£
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 109, 9 May 1924, Page 11
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173SUPREME COURT Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 109, 9 May 1924, Page 11
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