NEW SOUTH WALES LAND SCANDALS

Evening Star, Issue 13000, 20 December 1906, Page 6

NEW SOUTH WALES LAND SCANDALS

RTATKMEXTS BY THE JURY. cirrnxi; at thk truth. Prei" Asscriation—Br Telegraph—Copyright. IW/emlvr 19. In a.-rord->n.-» with ycstrd-.y's arrangejjifi'. Mv w ! >f>l> «i the jury in thp Crici. \V:K:k trial to-day waited upon the AUv;r;;-y-Ovrtrii. and raaih- re.fiTe.oee U> certain irnjH'iit:on>; invoivingr the purity of the jii.'v >.-.-;.~r<>. arhrinv: out oi a struonxtit pubiiih.<! in :< errtain paper. !; a-'.s z\ par»ir ; that <is:.<;jderabio f'-cimg nerved t>-f.rr-:n two soetious of the jary, ihr.v w'», wen. no! iiv-i:xW in :1c- depuli:t:e:i wh:-Ji sv.v Mr \V2<!'_' yocnerdny objecr. ir;.j to '-hf foreman as-c icei ypokt'.-iß'Stfi Pixjuiralory ■'> iiirtiiiii: any efiitewnt. ns to tb'e fic-.r. ; U-~ [rtpmu urofl.t to ot>t.i;>i a prorr.is.- of i>i,'jii3ity a;»ri;.n>i any ai-tion th-»! arts" o»it of such .statorr.cv t. ?.ir Wad- ;t ■.•■; .-;« iLTirranoe that f»i for ns U-o ..!>-T-'if's of'Wrs al'w£«d to be involrtd were (unoerxied. ?!o action would i>e taken, b?it i>o etV.d uot. p!od;;e Uk> (iwrr.Trxs.l to a jc<]tsrn>! y. In support <>l his requos: '.or an nity. tho fo;vtn,-.:i r»iid Ui.it word lia<i beer. broucht io h'm ihii ihat- or»e nrris.her of tie- j:iry had trait he podpessud a icis- hundred pou&uV.. and that, so Ion; as lv lsa«l that he. would hctmd tho foreman to earth. They kmrw eoriaa: tainjs -which Mr SVp.do octrht- to know, bni were not. prepared to make a sbu<enKait which wwiid hy them open to uoobie. Another juryman der!aT.--d that no kwrr nothing, but he wonW make n statement.. Eventually Mr Wade fr.tu.j< st*vi thp ,ldpotnbnent of a Koyal O?r.rr::/r : on. Th« foreman declared that if stir.U a cr.arrul.=sicn ■strrre appointed aix of the j:::y wou'd come forward acd pi re evident o on oath, proyidni thir were shireldtd. Subsequently the C'ali&c! appointed * District o>nn Judge a<s a Royal Commission to iiKjuirr- inio tlio Uiiitt'T.