DISTRICT COURT, CLYDE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 825, 8 February 1878, Page 3

DISTRICT COURT, CLYDE.

February's, IS7B. (Before bis Honor, Judge Harvey, and a Jury of 12.- Mr J. U. Cambridge, Foreman.) James Frederick Sawyer, a lad aged 16, was charged on two counts:—lst—With having committed an indecent assault; 2nd —With common assault, on a little girl, 84 years of ago. Mr Wesley Turton, Crown Prosecutor. Mr F. J. Wilson appeared for the prisoner. The evidence of the girl and flf'her fatherhaving been taken, that of the latter being to the effect that the prisoner came to him and admitted making proposals to the girl, but that he had done no harm to her, and • craved forgiveness, and his Honor the ' Judge having summed up, the Jury retired, | and on' returning recorder’, a verdict of gnilty on the first count, strongly rccom- S ■mending the prisoner to mercy on account ■ o,f the mild nature of the offence. Mr Allan 4 Cameron. in whose employ the prisoner was at the time of the commission of , the offence, having given evidence, as to ; ' ■ character, his Honor sentenced the prisoner j ' to fourteen days, with hard labor, in' Clyde 1 ' .gaol. ... Henry Brown, alias Hairy Brown, was ; ' charged with Larceny of about one hundred i ' ounces of gold, the 'property of the joint partueiship of the prisoner and one John l 1 Mellon, and being the produce of a washing , ! up from a tunnelling claim in Devonshire I 1 ’ Gully. | ■ Mr F.. J. ’Wilson, Aviso appeared for;: prisoner, raised a question of demurrer, on I the ground that : the indictment and the ; ’ matters therein contained are not sufficient i in law, and prays that the prisoner ho dismissed. : The Court, after argument, decided to c slate a special case for the Supreme and 1 Appeal Courts, the prisoner in the mean i time, to bo released tm his own recognizance i cf LIOO. at.’d to come up for .judgment on the first sitting of the Court after the next i ’Court of Appeal. i In* Bankruptcy. 1 Re 'Robert Scott, of Devonshire. Mr F. 1 J. Wilson applied for a complete execution ‘ o! dosd of arrangement. Granted. Eccr.E3iASTic.ti, Jurisdiction. i Re H. C. Jones, deceased. Mr Wilson ] appliedfor probate, which was granted. 1