Kirby and Bassett.
BEFORE THE COURT,
[By Telegraph.]
[Special to Standard.]
Wellington, This day,
Kirby and Bassett were put on trial this morning charged with conspiring to defeat the ends of justice by procuring the escape of Kirby to Sydney.
Sir Robert Stout and Mr Jellicoe appeared for Kirby, and Mr Wilford for Bassett.
Sir Robert Stout raised a point that the estreating of bail was really the punishment for escaping and that Kirby could not be tried again for the same offence.
The Judge ruled against Sir Robert Stout and also refused to permit the prisoners being tried separately. Mr James, Clerk of the Court, produced the record book. Two informations had originally been laid against Kirby and withdrawn. It was upon these that the bail bonds were estreated. A fresh information was afterwards laid, upon which Kirby was committed for trial, but the entry in the record book apparently showed he was committed on the original informations. Mr James said this was evidently a mistake.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 94, 14 August 1896, Page 2
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167Kirby and Bassett. Hastings Standard, Issue 94, 14 August 1896, Page 2
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