TWO MEN ACQUITTED
FRAUD CHARGE FAILS COMMENT BY JUDGE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. i.After returning and reporting that they were unable to agree on the evidence of one witness, the jury, after a total retirement of Jhrs. 22iniu., returned a verdict of not guilty in the Supreme Court yesterday in a case in which John Paton Hardy, 30, a compositor, and Augustus Jeaues, 29,, a butcher, were charged with conspiring with one another and a third, .person to defraud Brown and Dureau, Limited, Wellington, on January 5, of £69 12s 7d. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said that, as Hardy was at present soiling a sentence! he would remain in custody. . . . Turning to Jeaues, His Honor sain . “You are discharged. I repeat the warning you. were given by another judge from this .bench two months ago. You are, discharged/'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18465, 2 August 1934, Page 9
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