ALLEGED PERJURY
ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAD. In tho Police Court, on Friday the case in which George Dong was charged with committing perjury by making an alleged false statement that two houses cost £ISOO to build was continued, having been adjourned to give the Crown an opportunity to produce further evidence regarding the cost of erection. The offence was alleged to have been comnitted in evidence given before the magistrate in the course of an application to increase rent. Mr Adams appeared! for the complainant and Mr Hanlon for the accused. George Ferguson Brown, carpenter, and George Lowrie, corporation building inspector, gave evidence. The accused reserved his defence. The Magistrate: I do not know that the actual words in the charge have been proved by the evidence. Mt Adams submitted that the point was not a serious one. The Magistrate remarked that he had come little hesitation in sending the case forward to the Supreme Court, but he would do so. Bail was allowed in the accused’s own recognisance of £2OO.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3596, 13 February 1923, Page 30
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171ALLEGED PERJURY Otago Witness, Issue 3596, 13 February 1923, Page 30
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