WESTPORT MURDER CHARGE.
QUESTION OF COMPENSATION.
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
The Prime Minister was credited by a Duuediu iuterviewer the other day with the statemeut that the question of compensation to Hallinen and the relatives of Anderson, wrongfully convicted of murder at Westport, would come before Cabinet. When this matter was meutioued yesterday to the Hon. J. M'Gowau, Miuister for Justice, he said that, so far as he knew, there was nothing in the evidence to justify auy compensation being paid. The State should not be called upou to pay compensation on account of somebody having given false evidence. If the State or the police had done anything wrong, that would be another matter, but he had yet to learn that such was the case. The State must do what was right and fair to all, but the mere fact that these men were charged by the State with a crime did not entitle them to compensation. They might, under certaiu circumstances, be so entitled; but he had not yet learnt that such circumstances existed in tho caso under notice. He was, however, quite open to conviction.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9245, 11 December 1908, Page 5
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185WESTPORT MURDER CHARGE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9245, 11 December 1908, Page 5
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