AN ALIBI PROVED.
ACQUITTAL OF ACCUSED.
SERIOUS CHARGE COLLAPSES
One of the trials at the Supreme Court criminal sessions collapsed very suddenly yesterday. Oswald Dryland was indicted, before Mr. Justice Stringer, on charges of grossly indecent behaviour in Patteson Street on February 15 and 16. Two girls swore that accused had on both days, when they were passing the premises at which he worked, stood in a doorway and deliberately exposed himself. '. "' ■ ■ ' '
On the other hand, accused swore that at the times mentioned by the girls he was otherwise: occupied inside the building and an j apprentice . to his employers corroborated, his story. . Further, he proved -that on the day when the girls witnessed ft obscene ; . behaviour "he was dressed differently from the person they described. y:!, - ; - ; y \ . '.' ' v ■
.•■; After hearing this evidence, His Honor suggested • that there was no need to T go any. further, and observed that though it was obvious someone had misbehaved, it was clearly not the accused. ; ; .The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. V. R. Meredith, agreed with this view, and tjie jury, without quitting the ' box, "returned a verdict of acquittal. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18709, 15 May 1924, Page 9
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185AN ALIBI PROVED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18709, 15 May 1924, Page 9
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