AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS
By Telegraph.—Press'Association. Auckland, May 22. At the opening of the Supreme Court criminal sessions, Mr. Justice Stringer said that there were about seventeen charges, including one against eight Maoris chargeU with murder or manslaughter of a youth at Knituia some time ago. ne was bound to say there were no elements of murder in the case, the necessary intention of malice aforethought being entirely absent. He supposed from the depositions that accused helieved the youth might exercise some evil inllnence over some children. Superstition had a good deal to do with the matter. He directed the Grand Jury to reject the bill for murder and bring in u true bill for manslaughter. In the Supremo Court Domingo Carlos and Enrique Vareln, Spanish firemen, pleaded guilty to assaulting British members of the crew of a steamer. Carlos was sentenced to six months' and Varela to one month's imprisonment. Alfred Grosser, alias Crossbv, alias Sossley, was found guilty 'of false pretences, forgery and utterance of a cheque, and theft, and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 6
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180AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 6
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