PERJURY CHARGES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 2723, 25 November 1910, Page 3

PERJURY CHARGES.

AI^EGED ATTEMPT AT

BRIBERY.

Thomas Barraclough, a quiet-looking hard-working young man from Waihi, whose .curse is the drink habit, was placed in the dock yesterday at the Auckland Surpreme Court for sentence on a charge of perjury, to which he pleaded guilty the other day. His Honor said he had'fully considered the case, and with some hesitation had decided to admit prisoner to probation for the reasons (1) he was a first offender; (2) the probation officer recommended probation ; (3) although there was no direct evidence, the character given him showed that he was not very strong-minded, and was capable of being easily led, and may have been induced to commit the crime by the elder and strongerminded man, and (4) he pleaded guilty. His|Hon6r added that probation would be for the full- period of three years, and one condition would be that the

prohibition order in force against prisoner should be renewed from time to time till the expiration of the probation period. Prisoner was: also ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution within one month from date. Henry McQuane was charged with irbmmitting . perjury on the same occasion. Accused pleaded not guilty. Mr J. A. Tole (Crown Prosecutor) appeared for the prosecution, and accused conducted his own case. Barraclough, who had pleaded guilty on a similar charge, was called as a witness for the police, and he stated that the evidence he and McQuane had given in the Magistrate's Court was false.

William > Mather; another withess, stated that McQuane had attempted to bribe him hot to give evidence.

The jury decided that McQuane was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.