CASE DISMISSED.
A FATHER. ACQUITTED. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. . NAPIER, Nov. 27. Mr Justice Reed to-day advised the Grown not to offer further evidence in moest charge against George David Melville, assuming the father would still refuse to give evidence which might* incriminate himself, and ’the girl concerned would probably not remember any better than when before the Lower Court, when she was threatened with imprisonment if she did not testify. On the Crown’s acceptance of the judge’s advice, the latter instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, which was done forthwith.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 November 1924, Page 7
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94CASE DISMISSED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 November 1924, Page 7
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