SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1925, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

[by TELEGRAPH —PElt PRESS ASSOCIATION’.] TIM ARC SESSIONS. TJ.MAUU. .May 5. 'l’lie Supremo Court opened this morning and the Judge eonunented at some length oil the Hoad case and .-aid that the Jury would have 110 difficulty in returning a true Bill. The jury returned true lulls in the case of Hoad (murder), James Murray (forgery and theft), and! Norman South (carnal knowledge), IR)\D INSANE. TIM AIM . May 5. At ihe trial of Reginald Hoad Tor Hie murder of Id- daughter. Elsie Hazel Hoad, ai Kin Ora, which commenced at the Supreme Court at. two o’clock i his afternoii. Mr Campbell appeared lor the Crown, and Mr E. W. Ongley. of Oamaru. appeared for Hie accused. Mr Campbell outlined tin- ease at length, as previously reported through the press. The lirsi witness was Myrtle Hoad, a, sister of the deceased, who slept in ihe same room. She rehited how her father had emne into the room on several occasions during the night, and at almui J o’clock she was awakened hy her sister screaming. Witness saw her sister covered in blond, and her father standing by bolding wliat she took to he an axe. hut which she afterwards discovered was a tomahawk. Witness had formed the opinion, that. if some time. In i lather had been hemming morose. Maurice Hoad, aged It.’, also gave evidence regarding the occurrences of i in- tatal night, and Ceorge .MacDonald related how. in the early hours of Hie morning, the accused came to his house. I'll I SON" Eli'S J EAI.OI'SY. TIMA li C. May O. At the Supreme Court io-day. when Reginald I load, aged J!h farm labourer. near Oamaru. was charged with Hie murder of his daughter. Hazel. of whom lie was specially loud, might gain ihe a licet ions of some man. and fur more than a year he had made i! impossible for her to speak to any man or hoy. He finally became so i.-almis of her (though there was not the slightest ground for his suspicions) lhat mi the night in (|ii.-siciu. he killed her will) a tomahawk " lien she was asleep In lied, at the nan" lie:.' ’hooting her with a l'ille. 'lhe evidence of two experts in menial diseases. I)r M.Killop (Medical Superintendent of Suunvside Asylum) and Dr ITrieli (of Tiinaru) showed the accused to he xuli'ering from epileptic automatism, and they said that at the time of the tragedy he would he unable to realise the nature or .iiadity ol the am. or to know that ii was wrong, ■fhe jury ai',, ui' ■l l ihe accused. on

Hie ground ol insanity. Jedg,' Adam said he fully ."greed wi Hi tile Verdin. If' senieUeed th" a, J to 1 e (leta in Sunuyside Menial Asylum I ill Ihe pi." "'ire of <be Miiii- r was known. DEN EDEN CASES. I U N EDI X. Mnj 5. Ai ihe opening of the eriinin.il Millings of the Supreme Court, addressing the Drain! Jury. Justice Sim said that only three eases would engage Hieir at t eut.iun. eui uiiiort uuately all were sexual olfenees against children. True hills were ret urm il.

ir«l Samuel Rohml Cleilaud. (barged with hr.aking. eiilei’inv: and theli lr"in railway -tatiun. I’ukeuii, three years I rfni'ina I ivo 1 lea t nielli . David Charles M.-Ciil. < 1.-n-nt i.in of | paeke! and l liefl, I hive years* on pi'oba I ion. John Alexander Rohen-on. theft <>i uioior ears, three years in gaol. At Ihe Supreme Court ( ieorge A.lcxauder Milne was convicted on several charges of indecent assault, on males, nnd on one charge of an unnaiiii'al offence. He was remanded for sentence. Waller Miller was aciiuiltnl on a , barge of iudeeeni assault and eoiuni:m a .saidi on a girl id .’, year ; .