SUPREME COURT.
A sensational turn was taken .during proceedings in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth yesterday, when three witnesses denied the truth of material points in written statement they hud made to the police and in the sworn evidence they liud given in a Magistrate’s Court. The case was that in which Saiiiuel Percy Julian, of Tikorakgi, wits being tried on six counts of having- committed a crime against four of his daughters, his plea beiiig- not guilty to all tile charges. One of tlie girls, on . beiiig asked why she told the story to the police, said she made it up because her father was so strict , and would not let her and her sisters go to dances. Witness said her brothers were in the conspiracy, hut said slio did not know who suggesetd it. Another sister who had made charges against her father now denied them, and at this stage the examination was adjourned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1189, 11 December 1924, Page 7
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157SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1189, 11 December 1924, Page 7
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