PAINTER SENT FOR TRIAL
FALSE STATEMENT CHARGE DANNEVIRKE, Friday. Arising out of a recent civil action, James Humphreys, painter and labourer, has been committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of making a statement knowing it to be
false* and Intending to mislead tiia court. Accused alleged that he had mado two payments of £6O each iu connection with a building contract, and that a friend was present wnen the second £SO was paid. This was denied by the friend who said accused had asked him, prior to the civil action, to swear that he saw accused paying £SO m notes for which he received a receipt. The friend said he had declined to do this as it would have been false.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 6
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125PAINTER SENT FOR TRIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 6
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