SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1924, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

[itv TEI.KCIIAI'H —I'Kll I’ItHSS ASSOCIATION.] WKI.I.IXCTDX. July til. At tiie Supreme Court, I l 'rank Anseli pleaded guilty to forgery, in sending a number of telegrams knowing them to he false, with intent that they should l e acted mi. Sentence was deferred till Saturday. in charges against Joseph William .Moore, labourer, at the Supreme (oiirt, it was alleged that accused slide a suitcase and- contents of the value of L'S'J. It was- stated that suitcases and hags had been taken from cluhs and hotels in the city. The total value uf the goods stolen was LTI 101. About CIJII worth had been recovered. The police searched accused's residence and found stolen articles there. Accused said he bought them from a man wlm had gone away on the Moeraki. A verdict ol guilty of tin'll of the suitcase and ol receiving other goods knowing them to have been stolen was tetiiiucii. Sentence wits deferred. In a charge against Frcdciick ('oiirtI'lidv of pocket picking accused’s defence nils an alibi. The case is unfinished.

AUCKLAND, July :tl. At the Supreme Court .Maurice Hums Ward was charged with assault on his sister so as to cause act mil bodily harm. :il-n with common assault. In the lower eiurt proceedings last Thursday l''lorci!rc Ida Holton, the woman concerned, said she did not remember the night "lien -lie received iiiiuries to her head. She remembered going out to post a letter. Tin* next thing she remembered "its being in the hospital. Her brother "a- very drunk that evening. She wns living with him and had no reason to fear him. .Medical cvideiii'c was that loss of memory might he due to injuries. The evidence was that accused W.is drunk and did not know what he was lining. A verdict "I not guilty was relumed and accused was discharged. A burglary at the Avondale Railway Station on the morning ol June Jo. "In n the sale "as blown open and CoS lie Id stolen, was retold in the Supreme Court. Ksinoiid Kilwin J!odburiie Lilt terill. aged .'to, was charged with breiu.iug. entering. -111111 llicff. and alternatively with having unlawluljv received the sum ol money mentioned. After nearly lour hours’ 10lireu: -ut the jury reiurned a verdict of guilty of reieiving only. Sentence was ilolcrrcd.