SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1923, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

I_|;y TKLEUIUrU —Visit fit ESS ASSOCIATION . J DUNEDIN, May B. The Supreme Court opened tips morning, when Mr Justice Sim was welcomed by the Law Society. Richard Pickard Jones, who pleaded guilty of all indecent assault oil a boy aas fmed £2O. Counsel’s statement showed that accused had an excellent war record, having gone with the mam body as a commissioned officer; but he had been drinking heavily. The Judgesaid the assault was not very serious. Archibald Campbell Sim pleaded guilty to obtaining CIS from the lapamii Racing Club by falsely representing the trotting mare Dora Derby to be tl'.e male Traylaee. He was remanded for sentence till alter tho case against James Proctor Nicholson Is heard in connection with the same offence. ROBERTSON ORR CASE. WELLINGTON, May 0. When the Presbytery decided to reopen the Robertson Orr ease, he appealed to the General Assembly against the decision, giving his reasons. A committee, appointed to defend the Presbytery's action, lias submitted replies to these reasons, which were approved. They contended that the charges made against Mrs Evans were found untrue in Court, that the statement she was no longer a member of St Andrew’s Church was incorrect and that the case had long ceased to be a private quarrel, and was now a public matter.

A SAD IM'iCOK 1). AVEUJXGTON, A fay 9 -Arthur Henry Woods was round guilty at the Supreme Court this morning, with indecently assaulting two little girls. The .fury recommended that the prisoner be mentally examined. "I don't wonder at the recommcnda- • ti. 'i," said Sir I{. Stout. "The [irisoner has been a bad citizen all bis life. He has been convicted of theft, breakin;'; and entering, and three sentences for indecent assaults of a mure serious nature than the present, lie has spent nineteen years in gaol for indecent assaults, apart from sentences Tor other offences.” Prisoner was remanded for sentence. AVEU-INGTOX, Afav 9.

At the Supreme Court te-dav, F.rncH Xieholls and Edward Myers wore convicted of assault and robbery, and .sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. They were also declared habitual criminals. Both prisoners had very bad records, and both had previously been declared habitual criminals. * OHIUSTCHURCH, May 9.

Alfred Lewis, ;i young. imui who ad vei’i bod himself widely in July 1921, as being able to cure deafness in all its forms, and who set up in business in Hereford Sheet, was to-day found guilty at the Supeme Gout of having obtained £33 from Flora Hill b,v false representations'. Ji: 1 chiming a verdict of guilty, the foreman of the jury added. ‘‘and at the same time the iurv wish to express the opinion that the authorities should take immediate stops or should hate legislation passed to finil out the iiualifientious of masseurs, chiropractors and others.” The recused was remanded for sentence.