SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 127, 29 May 1907, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

cKLVfixAL srrnxGs. ~™~~- i The criminal sittings of tne Supreme j Court were continued before Mr. Justice I jjenniston yesterday afternoon, the Hon.! • J. A. Tolc appearing for the Crown. j

THE GKAXO JI'RV.

iIANsLAI'tJUTKR. INOUTMKN'TS THROWN 01T. • Testerday afternoon tlie ("rand Jury concluded their deliberations, when they returned "No bill*' in the rases of Herbert Straker and (.liarler Wilson, the tramway motormen who had been in- \ dieted on a charge nf manslaughter arisj jus out of street aecidmt?. , "jhe accused were brought formally j Jgiore hi= Honor and discharged. TRUE BILLS. True hills were returned m the following indictment-: ( harle- (~ 1". Pepper auu Herbert How 1011, charged with referring money stolen mini the steamship Tfavna; Oorge William Short I. attempted arson at Pukekohe: Marj -Vim ' ■ Glover, theft. Auckland; .lohn Thomas Bennett, fal-e pretences. Auckland: John Kenneth Cameron, assault causing actual bodily harm. Auckland: William Henry Cresswell, theft from wharf. Auckland; Ernest Claude Sheppanl. rape. Auckland: Eliza Davies. manslaughter, ~nri: Maurice Vernon Jones, unlawfully knovvin" .1 girl. Auckland: John Cadigaii and George Junes, vagrancy, Auckland: John Sheard, receiving stolen property. SERIOUS CHARGES AGAIXST A YOUTH. A youth named Arthur Harris, by occupation a jockey, was indicted on three charges of being improperly intimate wittf a gbl of" 13, and abducting her S ir<Hu her parents' house in EDerslie. Mr. J. B- Lundoit appeared for the accused. ybo pleaded "not guilty." ■ The prosecutrix, aged 15. said the su.eised was in "tier father's employ. She made ail appointment to meet the atrased 011 the afternoon ot' January 21. ami they went to the Domain. The jagat was -.pent on a beach at Xorth Shore, and in the iiioruini? they went to OXcill's Point. They stayed that day aud the following night in a paddock on the Point. Some food was brought to "ier by the accused. A lady resident iv the neighbourhood came to the paddock at 6 o'clock in the evening, and after I some persuasion witness went to her house, where she stayed that night. Then she went to her grandmother in Vousouby and was taken home by her i |pa rents. Qnestioued l>y Mr. London, ihe wit- \ fcess said she had never told Harris she m-j.s going to run away from home, but , elie informed him that her father thrash- ! e<! her for keeping company with him. ; rte went with Harris of her own ac- ■ eorrf. 31 r. J.undon pro<lueed letters •which had been written to the accused 5 by tiie prosecutrix, staling I hat slic Invetl him and unless lie would marry ' her later uti slip would enter a convent. \ into which her pareuts had already I ! threatened to put ber. 1 J The witness's father and mother gave , j evidence that her age had been dis- j ?" ; enssed in the accused's presence, and he / Aasw she was.'under sixteen years off l -flSt"- ■-' - I J "further hearing was atljourued until j flii; mnrninL'. I

\ j TO-TJAY"S PROCEEDINGS.

ITlie hearing of the charges against iitinr Harris was continued this morning. Among die witnesses exiled by the ; jtosccution was ;i manii'd woman living at Devonport. She said that the: accused got some food from her one j * 1 'tabniing in January, and remarked that I 'be had run away with a girl. Witness , " a asked who the girl was. and what was j , 1 kt age; the prisojK'f rcplyinrr " She is l H Steen and a half—she will be sixteen in j . 1 .frae." j

i Mr. Lundon opened the for Life l . -Jefeneo by brietly addressing the juryil Hie aeeosed was tlien called. He was, lis aid, 20 years of age. "A fortnight niter he left the employ of the proseeunhrs father lie wrote, informing her tint he did not wish to have anything toore to do with her. She subsequently fait a letter stating she would meet 8 at an hotel in Karangnhapc-road, g she did so. They went to the Dowin, and witness asked her to iro home, it she refuswi. therefore Ayed irith her. ContJiraing bis evidence, the accused Withe girl told him she would follow B anywhere. They went to North pR hecanse she said she ceroid stay m .swneoßt! there; but upim arriring | Devonport Die proseeutrix declared *?ebiew nobody. As he had no trionev. ?efery fares were paid by the girl. * denied having told the ' Devonport waeaslie knew the girl's age to be fif-'"mMda-half. His impression, gainetl m » conversarion \rith the proseentrix. Mi that she was ever sixteen, by Mr. Toie. the ac, said he was so tormented by the |™«otri3: that at last bo "made up" «• Mr, though he was very tiuwilnitg. (Proceeding.) ■