BECOH AND BAR.
SCENE IN A DUNEDIN COUET.
Dunedin, January 26
During tlie hearing of a vagrancy case at the Police Court yesterday moaning, Mr Stuart, for the defence, said he had a witness to call to prove that tbe accused was not guilty of the conduct ascribed to her. The Bench said they had determined to send accused to gaol for a month. Mr Stuart said he had before heard of eccentric Justices of the Peace, and vow he saw them. He had a witness to call on behalf of the accused, and yet the Bench gave its decision without hearing his witness. It was a most shameful travesty of justice. He had told them that he had a witness to call, yet they decided the case without allowing his witness to go into the box. He would be happy to make one to pay their Worships' passage to Eussia, aud he supposed that if that were done they would eventually land in Siberia. Mr Elmer said such language was hardly proper to use in the Court. Mr Stuart said he was an official of a higher Court than theirs, namely, the Supreme Court. If he thought that their Worships could be ashamed of themselves he wou!3 express a hope that they would.
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Colonist, Volume XXXI, Issue 5120, 1 February 1888, Page 3
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214BECOH AND BAR. Colonist, Volume XXXI, Issue 5120, 1 February 1888, Page 3
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