SUPREME COURT, INVERCARGILL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3675, 25 April 1883, Page 3

SUPREME COURT, INVERCARGILL.

Invercargill, This day. The Grand Jury found true bills in all the cases laid before them with the exception of that of S. S. Hayncs, charged with arson. John Ilines, a young lad, charged rvith uttering and forging a cheque at AVyndham, Avas found guiity, and being recommended to leniency by the jury, Avas sentenced to one month's imprisonment. P. Bayley pleaded guilty to stealing from the pocket of a fclloAV-worker in a harvest field a purse and £20 l.'Js, and was sentenced to twelve mouths' hard labor. Charles Sullivan, charged with rape ou a young girl of 115 years at AVaimatuku, pleaded not guilty. Proof of the crime, most clear and conclusive, Avas, hoAvever, adduced, and he rvas found guilty. His Honor, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner had been convicted of the most brutal rape Avith which he had ever had to deal Avithiu his experience. The prisoner rvas sentenced to i:j years' penal servitude, rvith 25 lashes with the cat on Monday next and 25 a month af tenvards. AVhen the sentence Avas passed all the audience in Court applauded. Sullivan gave his age as 58. He said he had been in an asylum in Nerv York four years ago, and Avas discharged before being cured of insanity. He professed toremember nothing about the offeuce, having been drunk at the time. AVilliam Clegg, charged with an unnatural offence on the person of a Chinaman at Dame station, rvas found guilty ou the second count of indecent assault. Sentence rvas deferred.