SUPREME COURT
AT AUCKLAND. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 8. At the : 1 *nurt the jury return I a •rd »»«»t guilty in the cr.se »»i Walter Robert McMahon, farmer. »»f Thames, charged with sheepstealing. The defence was that sheep running on an adjacent property got mixed with the accused’s. A verdict of not guilty was also Yeturned in the case of Clarence Russell and Henry James Abraham, charged with having conspired to defraud Jefferson Davis Edwards of £195 and Alexander Percy Y'oung of £245. The case was a re-hearing of a trial in which the jury at the last sessions failed to agree. It was alleged that the two conspired to induce Edwards and Y'oung to bid for articles of little value at an “advertising auction,”, on the understanding that their money would be returned. The defence was that the* men bid freely of their own suxord. AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, May 8. At the Supreme Court the jury failed to agree in a*case in which William Michael Wilkinson was charged with: (1) unlawfully supplying certain noxious things (pills), intending the same to be used with intent to procure a miscarriage; (2) attempting to unlawfully supply a noxious thing knowing the same to be unlawfully used, or liable to be used, to procure a miscarriage. •
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19009, 9 May 1924, Page 5
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