ENDS OF JUSTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1927, Page 9

ENDS OF JUSTICE

DEFEATED BY JURIES

QUEENSLAND TOWN

TO LOSE CIRCUIT COURT

(United Pres3 Association.—Copyright.) (Received 4th February, 11 a.m.)

BRISBANE, This Day,

The Government decided that lunisfail in North Queensland be deprived of its Circuit Court .sittings. The Attor-ney-General iv a statement said that it had been represented to him on several occasions that a section of jurors at Innisfail had proved averse to bringing in verdicts' of guilt and that intimidation had been resorted to in some cases in tho north.

A Supreme Cour.t Judge investigated and reported that he regarded the allegations as true and recommended that the Circuit Court at Innisfail be: abolished. The Government therefore decided that it had no option but to deprive Innisfail of the Court;

This is the second time in this history of Queensland that such action has been taken, the Government over fifty years ago having deprived Boma of its privilege in connection with an alleged cattle-stealing case, when the jury failed to convict, despite evidence which the Crown, held to be indisputable. The Roma case inspired the plot of Rolfe Boldrcwood 's '' Robbery Under Arms."