SUPREME COURT.
NEW PLYMOUTH SESSIONS. UNUSUAL DEVELOPMENT. New Plymouth, Nov. 24. An unusual development occurred in the' Supreme Court to-night in the trial of Albert Morgan Conroy, aged 56, a theatre proprietor of Hawera, on six charges of serious offences against males, and serious acts, and one charge of attempted suicide. A verdict of guilty on the attempted suicide charge was returned; but the jury failed to agree on the other charges. A re-trial was ordered, and at the request of Mr. T. M. Wilford, who with Mr. P. O’Dea, appeared for the defence, Conroy was immediately charged again with the offences. He thereupon pleaded guilty to the six major charges and a nolle proseque in regard to the other charges were granted. At the request of the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. C. H. Weston, sentence was deferred by Mr. Justice Ostler until Saturday. A verdict of not guilty on the grounds of insanity was returned in the case in which Stanley Reid Amies Wood, a retired Indian eivic servant, who was charged with sending threatening letters to an Inglewood girl Wood was committed to a mental hospital.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 25 November 1927, Page 8
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187SUPREME COURT. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 25 November 1927, Page 8
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