FOUND NOT GUILTY
TAXI-DRIVER'S RE-TRIAL The re-trial of Walter Herbert Shiels. taxi-driver, aged 30 (Mr. Sullivan), on a charge of having stolen £4 irom Noel S. Beattie on September 4, was taken before Mr. Justice Callan yesterday. For the Crown, Mr. N. i. Smith alleged that Beattie. who was a partially blinded returned soldier, gave Shiels a £5 note to change for him in mistake for a £1 note, but that Shiels gave him back change only for £1 and retained the other AM.
A shopkeeper gave evidence that he changed a £•"> note tor accused, but accused claimed that this note was his own.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and accused was discharged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24103, 23 October 1941, Page 15
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116FOUND NOT GUILTY New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24103, 23 October 1941, Page 15
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