ALLEGED PERJURY
DIVORCE CASE SEQUEL (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Five charges were preferred against John Black Batchelor, 32, a solicitor’s clerk, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, alleging perjury in tho Supreme Court on August 24, while giving evidence in a case concerning a petition for the dissolution of marriage, and also with wilfully attempting to prevent the course of justice and with the fabricating of evidence with intent to mislead the Supreme Court. Bail was refused, the Crown Prosecutor stating that there would probably be a sixth charge. The fifth charge had ■been laid as a result of an allegation that Batchelor interfered with witnesses when on bail. He was remanded till December 14.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18263, 5 December 1933, Page 6
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