An Assault Case.
SECOND JURY DISAGREE. (By Telegraph—Press' Association.) Wellington, last night.
The second trial of Edward Pierard, on a charge of indecently assaulting a girl under sixteen years of age, was proceeded with in the Supreme Court to-day. The jury in the first cas'd had disagreed, and at 10.80 to-night the second jury intimated that it was hopelessly divided, the difficulty being that some jurors had a doubt concerning the girl’s statements regarding her ago. The jury were discharged. The Chief Justice said that he thought this a proper case for a re-trial.
This is the second case ’on which two juries have failed to agree during tho present session.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 107, 15 May 1901, Page 2
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