CRICK-WILLIS CASE.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 319, 3 January 1907, Page 6

CRICK-WILLIS CASE.

[UY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT| (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 3, 12.30 a.m.) Sydney, January 2. The Royal Commission, appointed to inquire whether any persons were guilty of misconduct in connection with the recent Crick-Willis trial, has commenced taking evidence, the main object being to decide as to the integrity of the sheriff’s officers. The sheriff deposed that so far as he knew no one was guilty of misconduct. His officers were specially selected, because they were considered trustworthy. There was considerable trouble owing to the illness of several of the jurymen, doctors being admitted, and officers going more frequently to tbe jury-room in consequence than would otherwise have been the case. Ten jurymen were examined and several said they had no complaints to make and that they saw no misconduct in the privacy of the jury-room. It is alleged that others complained of the conduct of the sheriff’s officers in other matters.