CRIMINAL TRIALS.
DUNEDIN POLICE SCANDAL. EX-CONSTABLE CONVICTED OF RECEIVING. PIIESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, May 35. In connection with tho police scandal, Sir Fraser, Crown Prosecutor, asked that the charge of robbery against Moses and McDonald (in which the jury failed to agree yesterday) be allowed to stand over, as ho proposed to proceed with, another charge against Moses. H : s Honor having agreed, Thomas Moses was charged with breaking and entering the D.I.C. warehouse and stealing a cloth rug, etc. A second count charged him with stealing and a third with receiving. Michael Henry Eeddmgton, a one-armed night-watchman, gave evidence. Be denied haring ever given any goods to Moses. He gave certain information to Detective Cooney after the last robbery at the D.I.C. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of receiving, and sentence was deferred. DUNEDIN, May 25. .
Mr Hanlon applied to Mr justice Williams this morning for a change of venue in the Invercargill case' William Bernard Fiunerty and Albert Prentice, charged with rape, and Frederick Rodgers charged with wilful damage to property. The ground of the application was that tho accused would not have a fair trial in Invercargill owing to the .public feeling and prejudice against them. The Crpwn Prosecutor opposed the application, which was refused. John Hanna, charged with stealing from the person a rolled-gold watch and .pendant, was acquitted. . '
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5598, 26 May 1905, Page 3
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