PERJURY CHARGE
THE BATCHELOR CASE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. John Black Batchelor, aged 32 years, solicitor's agent, who had 'been remanded from December 5, today faced several charges in the Magistrate's Court alleging perjury in the Supreme Court, attempting to pervert the course of justice, and fabricating evidence. A ne^w charge was preferred, that since the last sitting the accused on November 30 had attempted to dissuade James Henry Duncan Campbell, by bribe ok other corrupt means, from ; giving evidence- in the case against the accused. The case is a- sequel to Supreme Court proceedings heard on August 24 in which Cyril Dixon^ petitioned for a dissolution «f his marriage with Isobel Dixon, and in which the accused, gave evidence." ■. ' -
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 11
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122PERJURY CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 11
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