WESTPORT PERJURY CASE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13713, 30 September 1908, Page 5

WESTPORT PERJURY CASE.

PRISONER FOUND GUILTY. ALLEGED CONFESSION OF MI!JU>EK. % Per Press Association. HOKITUCA,. Sept. 29. In the. Westport petyut'y , ous« agsinsb William Conueuy, Mr Justice Cooper occupied 5J houm in up. , Übe issue was practlcafffy whether Hallinan and Anderson, convicted ai Nelson of manslaughter and (sentenced to u'Vfcn „ years, hud been wrong fuliy\eoavicted> «ud the [present, prosecuiian had, biwa brought , to t(*>i' ._ ■ . . - . •, His Honour cammed VP pronouncedly in favour, holding that although Conuelly stood convicted from, his, pmt admissions, no <x>rroWative r«- • liable evidence had been ad<luet«l a» required by statute. t After- a recrement o£ four hours, the jurv brought in a verdict of guilty on the r eigut counts of the and not. guilty on the last unimportant count. Mr iiannun, for tho defence, asked for leave to move for a tyial, on the ground that the> verdict van, agaiml ibd weight of evidence. ' His Honour, while marring leave to move for a fresh trial, a >a.kf that' he did not think the application would to grunted, its he wa* that th» jury had given lurtful ittuwnuiiHUuu w» tlk- whole ease. • •

Prisoner waa sentenced to seren yeafe' hard labour. It. in authentically ivported thikt the prisoner, aft«r b«ing taken back to bis (X'llj confessed that ho alano rnurtkroid Burke.

bad occupied the Court eight days," and the jury bad been locked up over ajie Sunday.