Mr. Alan Mackenzie gave evidence as to taking care of over $1,000 for the defendant. Macdonnell called on him on the Saturday evening and said he had won well over $1,000 at the races and was going out that evening, and Witness suggested he had better let him take off some of the money. Mr. Macdonnell did not call for the money afterwards, and witness re-. turned it on the following Thurs-
of it. ay because he wanted to get rid Mr. McDonald recalled' Det.- Sgt. Beer, who stated that at the time of his arrest defendant was suffering from a rash, NOTHING BUT A MISTAKE, This concluded the cage for the defence, and Mr. McDonaid then submitted that defendant should be discharged. No jury in the world; he said, would or could convict on the evidence. The defence was an absolutely complete and satisfactory explanation of the whole thing, which was nothing else' but a mistake. Where there was any divergence between the evidence of prosecutor and the defendant, the court should not have the slightest difficulty in deciding which story" to accept. Mr. Hammond was a man of singularly bad Memory, and he apparently had no sense whatever of the tremendous responsibility of instituting criminal proceedings. What weight could be attached to his statements when he had declared
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