CHARGE COLLAPSES
■ DEATH OF A WITNESS ■ (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. A charge of perjury against Ernest Gilbert, a blacksmith, collapsed in the Magistrate's Court, when it was announced that the witness whose absence resulted in the adjournment at the previous hearing on 23rd-February had died in the Auckland Hospital on Monday.. ... The case arose out of acquittal of Gilbert in February, 1926, 'on a charge of negligently driving a motor-car at Ouehuuga. A collision occurred with a cyclist on Mangere Bridge, and when prosecuted Gilbert declared that he and another man were the only occupants of the ear. The police had since alleged that there were two women, and at the opening the case a fortnight .ago a woman stated that she' was a passenger. The case was adjourned by Mr. F.K. Hunt, S.M., when it was said that the other woman concerned was in the hospital. At the resumption the police intimated that.the witness died on Monday..' . " .. Mr. Goldstein, counsel for accused, asked for a'dismissal on the ground .that a prima facie case had not been made out. The Magistrate concurred.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1928, Page 8
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