SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.
(per press association.)
Auckland, This Day. At the Supreme Court the Grand jury made a presentment to the Judge, drawing attention to the frequency of offences against women, and stating that the punishments hitherto inflicted did not appear to be sufficiently severe to act as a deterrant.
Later on Eobert Henry Aubrey was found guilty of attempted rape, and sentenced to ten years' hard labour, with two Hoggings of 25 lashes each. Chbistchubch, This Day.
In the Supreme Court to-day Martin Edward Lock, charged with indecent assault, was found not guilty. George Shamy, for the theft of two cheques (£4 and £llO respectively), pleaded guilty, and got six months' probation and the restitution of "the £4, the money ' stolen, and pay £lO, the cost of the prosecution at £3 per month. George Newman and James Bown, were charged with robbery from a person in a hotel. Bown was dismissed but Newman got 12 months' hard labor.
Walter Narbay, sheep stealing at Akaroa. The case for the prosecution closed and the Court adjourned till tomorrow.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 May 1901, Page 4
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177SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 May 1901, Page 4
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