TELEGRAMS

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4218, 15 February 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

(Per Press Association.) LIVINGSTONE FOUND NOT GUILTY. Wellington. Feb. 1-1. At'the retrial of Matthew Livingstone, charged with carrying on the business of a bookmaker, Mr Justice Chapman, in his address to the jury, said the discission on the case had been mostly on law. Not one single fact presented in evidence had been controverted. The law was simple on the question. The jury must decide whether the facts of the evidence made out a case according to law. There was very strong evidence on the transactions which had been presented to the Court that'the accused had carried on the business of a bookmaker. His Honour outlined the facts of the case, and said the jury must apply the law to them. They were there to do their duty. If they had undisputed facts before them and they knew the law they must refer the matter to their reason, remembering their oath, and not to their sympathies. The juiy returned a verdict of not guflty: ACCIDENTS AT TAIHAPE. Taihape, Feb. 14, Michael Doyle, while shunting this morning at the railway vards, had his right arm caught in the tender and very severely crushed. On February 12, at Mr J. Anderson's farm, Bennett's Siding. James Miles, in trying to catch a broken belt in ■ connection with the milking machines, had his arm torn off.