SUPREME COURT SESSIONS
HAMILTON, 11th February.' At the Supreme Court today, before Mr. Justice Cooper, Joseph Mathers, farmer, was acquitted on a charge of alleged theft of a heffer. A man named Farralley was found guilty of breaches of tho Bankruptcy Act, and sentenced to three months', imprisonment. In selv tencing an elderly, man named John Kennedy Of assault on- a girl of twelve year* of age at Ngaruawahia, his Honour said that prisoner, was an object for pity and compassion, and, in his opinion, should be m some hospital between a lunatic asylum and general hospital— not exactly in gaol — where a- man suffering from this disease could be kept for a lengthy p6riod. He ordered prisoner to be detained for reformative treatment for ten years, and he would make a report on the case to the Prison Board. DUNEDIN, 11th February. Edward Goodall, a warder at Seacliff, was acquitted on a charge of assaulting an elderly patient.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1913, Page 3
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