SUPREME COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

"*■■■— "" i ■ CRIMINAL SESSION 1 Tltte bills were found by the Umnd Jury in" the following cases, not report" ed yestet'day : — John Condon, Thomas lionovaiii 9tiA Williftm -Henty Adamt. alleged- assault and robbery j Herbert Wallace, >lias Wor'maii, alleged theft; Walter /.krausch (/nd James O'Keili, alleged fcwiaking, entering, and theft ; Seddan Reid, James O'Neill, William Hades ahd Walter Kmusch. alleged brealdlig, Entering imd tlieft; GeOrgo Watel«, tflteged breaking, tmteiihß and -theft j William John f-fogan, alleged assciuH'and causing actual bodily harm. NOT GUILTY. Jojih' Rickeai'd ttilstone was charged with, committing an indecc?nfc assault upon a .little gul f - , ttc pleaded not fluiity,, an 4 Vasfcitlefcnded by Mr. T, Neave. 1 A^teJ-'-.ias^hoEt- retirement, the jury', o\ wMclt Mr. AY. h Smith was foroman, returned a, verdict, of not guilty, and, the prieonev was discharged. „ , , ] . , MOUSE BLOWN UP. CffTARaE OF WILFUL DAMAGE. Albert John Udy w» 8 charged that on sth- November, at Waihakeke, near Carterton,. (l)'he dtd place an 'explosive substance . beneath a dwelling-house, (2) that he wilfully destroyed a hotise, the proper^ 0f.%-y Ann Udy. He pleaded not guilty, and \#aa defended by Mr. T. E. Maunsell, of Carterton, Mt. J^dward Charles Cohnor was chosen foreman- dFtfe jtfry. ' In opening the case Mr. Macassey, Crown Prosecutor, said thw the prisoner had'.pecupied a hbuse and farm owned by his mdthßi'i The day-befbre the^eJtplosion took place the mother had arranged for another person to: take charge of the tows. on the farm, since, accused was ttotiit 4 flfc' condition to do the work; On the day of the explosion . accused's Horse ahd trap were Been in the heigh* hourliood of the house, just prior to the occurrence. The Crown suggested that accused, uhder the" ' influence, of liquor, had determined to fiave his revenge on bis 'riibther for " placihg the farm under anotwr mart's esre.' Mftiy Artti' l Udy, mother of accused, said that accused managed her property. He- Had been living in the house at Waihakeke fdr about twft ysars. The dwelling was valued at £300, and insured fpr £170. There wW about 29 cows on the farm, ahd the day before tbi explosion she 'arranged with a mart tiamed Hercock to ■ take bharge of them temporarily, as her sort was subject to fits. .She. had, never had angry words with lier. BOfu Her , son told her, after the explosion, that he did hot know how it occurred. She wae certain he did not cause it, and she attributed it to rats. Charles Jensen said that -on 6th Nov ember he saw a horse and trap near accused's .hbufeej a.'nd shortly afterwards he heard the sound of. an explosion? Me vveht back and saw the horse and trap some way from where it had beeirpre* yiously. Had it remained where it was in the first place it would have been de« stroyed. ' ' ■ , At this stage the hearihg Was adjourn-" ed until this morning.

A third>lass v passenger, Miss L. Davey,. 63» years., of age, died oh board the l^.MiS^Jfom'&ra on 4th Janhar-y, ;when..,the .^essel.^AS afc sea. The cause ■of death was. bronchitis./' '.t. t „ ...