CONSPIRACY CHARGE
TWO MEN ACQUITTED WARNING TO ONE REPEATED [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON,- "Wednesday After returning and reporting that they were.unable to agree on the evidence of one witness, the jury, after a total retirement of 3 hours 22 minutes, returned a verdict of nst guilty in the Supreme Court to-day in the case in which John Paton Hfirdy, aged 30, compositor, and John Augustus Jeanes. aged 29, butcher, were charged with conspiring with one another and a third person to defraud Brown and Dureau, Limited, Wellington, on January 9, of £69 12s _7d. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said that as Hardy was at present serving a sentence he would remain in custody. Turning to .Tcanes, His Honor said: "You 'are discharged. I repeat the warning you were given by another Judge from this Bench two months ago. You are discharged."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21868, 2 August 1934, Page 13
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143CONSPIRACY CHARGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21868, 2 August 1934, Page 13
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