A MUCH-TRIED CASE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 204, 2 October 1914, Page 10

A MUCH-TRIED CASE.

CROZIER v. MYERS. v APPEAL BEFORE SUPREME COURT In the Supreme Court this morning his Honour Mr Justice l).enniston heard an appeal /*£rom the decision of Mr V. G. Day, S.M., in an affiliation case. The appellant was Albert Herbert Crozier, and the respondent J. S. Myers. The case had been the subject of an appeal some time ago. Mr E.. T. Harper appeared for "the appellant, and Mr J. A. Flesher for the respondent. ';■..■' The appeal was brought against an order by the Magistrate adjudging the appellant the father "of an illegitimate child. '■..'"-* \; Evelyn P. Myers, a seventeen-year-old

girl, gave evidence that Albert Herbert Crozier, the. appellant,wasthe father of an illegitimate child of "which she was the mother, and cited an instance on December '3l,' 1911, on which misconduct - occurred. -In answer to Mr Harper the witness declared that she was not a consenting party, and that Croizer had used force. She had told her.,father pf the occurrence, but had not/ told him that Crozier had used force,, because Crozier had threatened to shoot her if she told her father. She.never told Crozier of her condition, Pearl Myers, a sister of the last witness, gave evidence that on the night of the alleged, misconduct, appellant and. her sister returned together from a boating party on the Styx River. ' • ■ Patrick McCarthy, farmer, who was cycling in the vicinity of the Styx Bridge on the night in question, said he saw a number of people on the road, but could not say who: they were. To Mr Harper: He (witness) - was prosecuted for perjury in connection with this case, and was acquitted. Thomas Morton, a farmer of Marshlands, and interested in property near the Styx Bridge, said he saw a boating party on the evening in question, but he did not see all the members of it. Esthem E. Dass, residing at Marshlands, said that in June, 1912, the appellant discussed Evelyn Myers with her, but she could not remember what was salt!. On the application of Mr Flesher the evidence of two witnesses taken before Mr Bishop, S.M., was admitted. Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., was called by Mr Harper. He produced his notes of the evidence of a witness named Rogal, given in the Lower Court. The witness denied in this that any intercourse had ever occurred between himself and Evelyn Myers. (Proceeding.)