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HE GOT HIS LIBERTY.A Lengthy Trial and Able Addresses by Judge and Counsel.The lifting of the eye-browa of Mr. W. A. Macdonald told the .story. I» was not a Masonic sign, but it was a sign given one of the jurors, as amid the awful stillness of the court room, on Saturday, at 1 10 p.m., the jury in the case of David Lock ridge* tiled into the box, after their deliberations. It was a sign that the defendant's attorney. Mr. W. A. Macdonald understood, for no vjoner had he received it than he stepped to the side of the prisoner, and whispered the words not guilty.” A light oversptead his countenanoe, and dissipated the lines that had been withering bard and fast during the few days, he had sat tn the box, listening to the testimony of the several witnesses.The trial was \ long oum, the efforts of the crown were hy no means weak, those of the defense were as strong a they could be made.The tirst witness called was detective Foster, who testified to having arrested the prisoner, and fimiimr in a coat or rest pocket in his house, several bsnk notes which had been raiseu from their original value to (host of a higher a* mount. These with papers bearing the prisoners name were in % jneket booktiO'Qlt;David Lockridge is Once More a’Free Man.TWELVE INTELLIGENT JURERS DECIDE THAT HE IS NOT GUILTY.
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Brandon Sun Weekly
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Mar 22, 1894
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Kenneth J.
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