SUPREME COURT,
| (Per Press' Association.) I Palmerston North, last night. I The Supreme Court opened to day before | the Chief Justice. There are 16 charges I on the oriminal calendar against 11 perI sons. In his charge to the grand jury, I Sis Honor said that none of the cases were serious, but he alluded to the fact that a oharge of using obscene language in a railway carriage was the first to come be- | fore him in which accused had. demanded I a trial by jury instead of adopting the nsual course of having the case heard by the Stipendiary Magistrate. True bills were found against J. H. Towers, breach of Bankruptcy Act; Mary Jane Lee, theft and forgery, two counts ; Frederick Middleton, three oharges of theft.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1393, 2 March 1905, Page 2
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128SUPREME COURT, Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1393, 2 March 1905, Page 2
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