NOT GUILTY
ACQUITTALS AT PALMERSTON
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., This Day
After a retirement of seventeen minutes the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the Supreme Court case in which Allan Neil Littler, a labourer, aged 21, was charged with having wilfully placed an obstruction,, a luggage barrow, on the line at the Otaki railway station.
Evidence was given by an eighteen-year-old'youth that during a dance a. party, including the accused paid periodic visits to a place where they consumed the contents of a gallon keg and six quart bottles of beer.
The accused said he could not remember handling the barrow, into which a goods train had crashed. Counsel for the defence described the affair as merely a foolish episode occurring during drunkenness. Eruera Ruihi, alias Ted Lewis, charged with indecent assault on a girl at Ohau, was found not guilty.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 100, 25 October 1934, Page 4
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145N0T GUILTY Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 100, 25 October 1934, Page 4
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