Ado Smith Not Guilty
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Prom Our Own Correspondent MORESBY, March 28.
Ado Sydney Stephen Smith,
on March 2, was found not guilty of doing grievous bodily harm to Constable Le’e Taita. The charge arose following an incident last year when Smith was leading a Patrol in the western district of Papua and as a result of which the policeman lost an eye.
In his summing up Mr. Justice Gore said that he was certain Smith had no intention that the incident should end so unfortunately as it did.
Both parties had been standing close together in a tent and had been very angry. There was some doubt as to whether the native had adopted a fighting attitude and he would give the benefit of that doubt to the de fendant.
Patrol Officer D. Clancy returned from the School of Pacific Adminis tration at Mosman to give evidence at the trial.
ADO Sydney Smith will now go to the School, for a term.