As the result of a trial lasting for a day and a half, the jury in the trial of Jack Allen returned a verdict of not guilty, with which his Honour Judge Sir Havilland de Sausmarez in discharging the defendant, expressed his concurrence. The defence put forward by Allen was to the effect that he originally started out on the night in question with a view to discovering a case of opium smoking which he could have reported to his superiors, and that while waiting in the house of his boy, who had given him the information on the subject, he took a quantity of drink, as the result of which he was ignorant of what occurred at the house of the complainant, and, further, that when was Offered $300 as part of the proceeds from the sale of the opium {seized he refused to take it.
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