AN INTERESTING CASE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 227, 25 September 1907, Page 8

AN INTERESTING CASE.

WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS APPLIED FOR.

PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES

[press association.] WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. An interesting application for a writ of Habeas Corpus is being made in the Supreme Court in behalf of Miss Agnes Jensen Williamson, of Reefton. The application calls upon the gaoler at Wellington to show cause why she should not be discharged from custody, on the ground that the warrant for her arrest was irregular in several particulars. It appears that the applicant was arrested at Wellington yesterday on a telegraphic warrant from Reefton, upon a charge of being about to depart from the Colony with intent to defeat' her creditors.

Miss Williamson, in the papers presented to the Court, alleged that she was not a bankrupt, and had never been served with any bankruptcy proceedings. She had been resident in Wellington since the 21st September, 1907, and had no intention of quitting her place of residence. Mr Justice Cooper will decide the matter this afternoon.