THE CHARGE AGAINST AUBREY.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8730, 18 November 1896, Page 3

THE CHARGE AGAINST AUBREY.

■ -M» — (BY TELEGRArH.) (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Timaku, November 17. 'Judge Ward and a ;jury of twelve were occupied ab the District Court from 11 a.m. to 3.80 p.m. to-day m the case of "William Aubrey, charged on the first fount with stealing a saddle, breeching, Jiames, traces, and driving reins, on or j»bout the 7th June ; and on the second count with receiving the said harness knowing it to have been dishonestly pome by. Mr White, for the Crown, opened at length, dwelling on the fact jthat the harness must have been stolen between the 4th and 12th ; that accused Bold the harness to Anderson on the J.3th ; and of the different stories the •accused told to Anderson and to Detective O'Brien. Evidence was given by Samuel Rutherford, Miss and Mrs Rutherford; George Sumpter, R. H. Anderson, E. Wilson, Detective O'Brien, and Constables Grahame (Ngapara) and Bradshaw (Kurowj. The main facts are well known to your readers. Mr Harvey, for the prisoner, cross - examined at length, He severely questioned young Rutherford as to the dates when tfye harness vyas missing anc] supposed to be etolen. and closely questioned Anderson and Wilson as to the movements of the accused from the 4th to the 6th jmd the 9th to the Hth. He addressed the jury at length, referring rather lhafshly to the present proceedings after the one acquittal m the lower Court, and •said that accused had been trapped to give Imself away m his defence before the atices, the evidence then showing he is only m Oatnaru from the 7th to the h, and the prosecution seized on the at date as thab on which the harness ust hare been stoleu. His Honor jefly summed up, and the jury, after a ilremenfc of fifteen minutes, found übrey guilty on the second count, and ntenced him to three months' imprisonent. 'In the other charge of receiving a ding bridle knowing it to have been ißhonestly obtained, the jury, by direcon of His Honor, formally returned a jrdict of not guilty.