TELEGRAPHIC

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 8 April 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. | [fbom oub own correspondent.] I Choi- tchpbch, April 6. Gibson was acquitted of the murder of Kerrison on y the ground of insanity, IDr Hacon, Medical Superintendent of Sun* nyside Asylum, and Dr Symes, both gave testimony to rffiCt that he was not in his right |onses, and another witness recapitulated, aots of the man which had long. led hibi tp believe that he was not in bis right mind. Crow n Prosecutor wonld notpoon with the ease, and a jury re» turned a verdict of acquittal. Gibson will be confined to Addington gaol till tbe pleasure of the Governor is known. - Dunedin, April 6. ' Property-tax raised at the Dnnedin Office yesterday amounted to £6500. Auckland. April 7. In the Supreme Court tbis morning Samuel Brown, an old settler and an exmerchant, was arraigned on several charges of larceny and burglary. The only evidence for the defence, was that of witnesses as to character. These in« eluded the Hon. Mr Whittaker, Hon Mr Dignan, Mr Olarke, the Mayor, who had known prisoner thirty or forty years. In Browns case the Judge said he had known similar cases of kleptomania. It was a well known fact in physiology that there were such forms of deringement. ' fn the face ''of such' cv?. ! dence of' leading citizens he did not think it necessary to commit the prisoner to gaol. He would be liberated on two bonds of £300. •"" " l