JUDGE'S SUMMING UP.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13655, 21 February 1913, Page 5

JUDGE'S SUMMING UP.

THOMPSON ACQUITTED

(Received' Feb. 20, 9.50 p.m.)

Melbourne, Feb. 20,

The Chief Justice, Sir John Madden, in summing up rin the Fitzroy murder case, said that if. the jury were satisfied thai the fing«r print on- the windowsill was Thompson's, they were at liberty to convict him of murder. It appeared that accused was in the Post Offico jfotel, which was in the neighbourhood of the tragedy, until eleven o'clock that night, and accused said he then took a tram to town. If so one would havo thought ho would have been able to call someone who saw him. The corroborating circumstances, though slight, wero not without significance.

The jury, after four hours' retire nibntj,.returned'a verdict' of not guilty.

The crowd outside- cheered the verdict,' and escorted Thompson down the street, cheering..