QUESTION OF IDENTIFICATION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 May 1938, Page 7

QUESTION OF IDENTIFICATION.

.»■ - - I BURGLARY CHARGE DISMISSED (By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The jury in the Supremo Court, Wellington, to-day found William George Collie, labourer, aged 22. not guilty on a charge of breaking and entering the Eanfurly Club at Masterton by night with intent to steal. The trial began on Tuesday afternoon. The Crown's case rested mainly upon the question of identification, it being alleged that accused was the person whom a constable hfd seen walking across the roof of the building near the club on the night the premises were broken into. The contention of the defence was that the case was one of mistaken identity and that subconsciously the constable who had had only a momentary glimpse of the man, gained his main description after the arrest of accused. ANOTHER ACQUITTAL WELLINGTON, Last Night. After a retirement of about half an hour a jury in the Supreme Court, Wellington," to-day returned a verdict of not guilty against Joseph Uru, labourer, aged 37, who was charged with breaking and entering the warehouse of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., Masterton, and stealing shearing implements, a cheque-book and a quantity of liquor of a total value of £l7 lis 3d. There was an alternative charge of receiving shearing implements. Mr. Justice Reed said in his opinion it would be unsafe to convict because there was nothing in the evidence to connect accused with the crime. mi •&?