CHRISTIE RELEASED FROM GAOL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4990, 25 April 1889, Page 3

CHRISTIE RELEASED FROM GAOL.

THE REASONS FOR IT. (By Telegraph,) DUNEDIN, April 25. In giving Judgment in the case of William Christie, Oamaru, an application for his discharge from prison, Mr Justice Williams said that the fixing of a particular prison was an essential part of the sentence, and no proper prison had been fixed, 'ihcrc had been therefore no sentence and it was, ho thought, perfectly clear that on the authority of the Queen against Garvey, and also of the Queen against C’rowe, there were no possible moans now of giving a valid sentence. The public examination was at end. The sitting of Die Bankruptcy Court was over, and it seemed to him, on tlio authority of those cases, it would bo altogether too late for the Bankruptcy Court to make a fresh adjudication by substituting •' Timaru ” for “ Oamaru,” and supposing theJEseculivo were to take the extreme step now' of making tfco Oamaru police gaol a

public prison, still as tho warrant was bad in its inception, that would not mend tho matter. It seemed to him a very plain case, a particularly plain case, but a very unfortunate one. lie therefore made the rule absolute. His honor agreed with remarks of Mr Chapman that if.the gaoler had been experienced, like those in large centres of population, he would probably have refused to receive Christie as a prisoner at all.