SILVERSTREAM MURDER.
The amount voted by the Justice Department for the defence of Philpott in the Silverstream murder case -was only JJIO 108. Mr Jellicoe, in his affidavit in connection with the application to be heard before the Executive Council on the condemned man's behalf, states that the fee set apart for Philpott's defence was so small that he was prevented from making an effort to obtain change of venue, a step which he considers would have been only fair to the prisoner, who, through the publication of sensational reports in the newspapers, was, he alleges, .condemned before the trial took place. Mr Jellicoe points out that he had arrayed against him no fewer than forty-six witnesses, the Crown Prosecutor (Mr H. D. Bell), one of the ablest advocates in the colony, Mr M. Myers (from the Crown Solicitor's office), and the whole of the local police.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6130, 17 March 1898, Page 3
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