INVERCARGILL SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1065, 2 March 1911, Page 6

INVERCARGILL SUPREME COURT.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) .... Invcrcargill, March 1. the criminal business, at the Supreme Court was finished to-dav 1 Adam Priskie, 22 years of age, was found guilty of shooting at his employed James Brown, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Priskie also pleadcfguiT/y to a charge of having attempted to have carnal relations with the twelve-year-old daughter of lus employer, ami was sent enced on each cliargc to five years'" imprisonment (concurrent), and,' in addi tion, to reformatory detention not exceeding five years. The marriage twelve years a"o of Matilda A. Pigeon to Jacob L. Owen was annulled, Owen at the time having had another wife living, the fact of which petitioner was not, and respondent mav not, have been aware. 11l the case of Marjory Mabel Sutherland v. Kobt. Sutherland, wife's petition on the ground of desertion, a decree nisi was granted. The evidence in this was to the efl'ect that petitioner had married respondent at Waikaia in 11)01 when she was 15 years old, but in l!)0j lio had left the district, and that she had not seen him since, |