COURT NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1931, Page 5

COURT NEWS.

(By Telegraph —Per Press Association) DUNEDIN, October 26. At the Snpijenje Qourt, Samuel James Douglas, charged with indecent assault, pleaded guilty, and was remanded for sentence, Ivor 1 Gamon, police' constable, was charged, with stealing a bicycle which, it was alleged, he came across one night when he was on duty in September, two years' ago. After the evidence tlie jury brought in a verdict of “not guilty.” COMPENSATION CLAIM GISBORNE, Oct. 27. Tn the claim for compilation before the Arbitration Court, after the evidence the court held that Nissen’s death was not due to the accident, but that the accident caused an injury which would have incapacitated him. Plaintiff, therefore, was entitled to judgment for conpensation from August 4, IS3O, to the date of his death, at the rate, of £4 a week, or a total of £216 with costs. YOUTH ON PROBATION AUCKLAND, Oct. 27. A youth of seventeen ■ who three times has broken into premises, and stolen apparatus for hi.s chemical experiments, appeared at the Police Court, chared with the theft of glassware valued at £l2, the property of the Gas Company, whose laboratory he had entered, through the fanlight. It was stated that the instruments were recovered intact. No attempt was made to dispose of them. The youth had a bent for chemistry and apparently was unable to resist the tempation to steal instruments he could not afford to buy .

The Magistrate remanded the accused, named Keith George Brierly, for a report from the Probation Officer. Bail wiis allowed.