PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post, speaking of the case of the French girl, wrongly imprisoned, remarks :— " The case is a very sad one, and should teach Mr Hardoaatle the impropriety of excluding on a mere legal formality any testimony which may throw light on a case, and, abore all, which may save him from committing the very serious error into which he seems to have fallen m this casethat is, sending an innocent woman to prison for a month. It appears to uh that the circumstances of- this affair point strongly to the necessity of an enquiry into the administration of justice m the Wellington' Court. There seems by far too great * tendency to assume the guilt of any person against whom the police make a charge, and this is not at all a satisfictory state of things."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 228, 29 August 1883, Page 2
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