Supreme Court.

Manawatu Herald, 1 September 1892, Page 2

Supreme Court.

At the sitting of the Supreme Court at Wellington on Monday th« Grand Jury returned true bills in ■the cases, j r John. Black and Daniel Tennerit, 'btiVglary; WiUiam . Pojtter,, , . larceny , (four charges) and breaking aM entdrfng ; J. D. Hunter (( . and. J,ohn ftfartin, assault 'and' robbery | 'Edward 0 A. Haggen, libel; Charles Archer Watson, rape (two charges); Mary Brown, larceny; William John Simmons, alias Nicholls, alias ■Williams, alias Parker, larceny and fdrgery Afdridg*. ahfcs Igoe, uttering .a forged order f ; Henry Russeft/' !f Mfc!e!riy j><Fr'anfk;;B;!&Bwe, alais G. n. Campbell, false pretences (two charges) ; Thoma« Tait, perjury ; Herbert Wilfred Lawson, alais Gifford, alias Clapham, alias Challis, alais Rhodes, false pretences. The Grand Jury returned no bills against William Smith charged with receiving sfolen. u ;-pr ) opßrtx I ; l and Thomas Luff, charged wi.th.rj&n^ William Potter was found guilty and remanded-. foiv'Ben'teftG&AtUl Friday. : : .>-.-.-; .• -•>,:>',;. Henry : Ru^e'U who tpleaded guilty to finding .the., cheque! .tout not to stealing (ifc,;:wa^.fbiiri(iiguilty and Hia Honor,^aidf the.;; prisoner would be placed ;onprob^ipn for 12 months, and alteriltoa:. 'first three months he would, ihaVß to pay £1 a month ■ toward. the cost of the prosecution. <:<hjai)laß>;A. Watson pleaded not i grtilty; Ato ; : tiae < ><shavge of rape at Paltoefitonr -N>J>( U /svidenoe having been tend&'eaTb.y^b&^wo little girls Belinda and^Eyjefys,.j^Jggi n8 i a S e(^ respectively 12 yfcftm f.a&<fl 8 years which showed tl^i !j wken. u |glaying truant from school J#sMb£.BFi*ft ner . whom they had, not ipen ; befo^e, and the younger one aske&yhjm for a match as she waoted.jjp smoke a .jQigarett6tM!,He r )ga r v«t ) iher the match and tb.eix, ißdae«dj ; tbe girls to aocompanyliiQiito:,^ paddock a little out of feh£)towi&' where he committed -anibifenb&on / '.the eldest girl. They *therii weht< into a Chinaman's shop in theidwn, and the prisoner purrchewed;' isome fruit for them. He aftai 1 wards' asked them to go down to the ?iveE,.j&me distance irom the towßii'-Theyuagsjßnted, and on reach* ing tha-.rivßi'.tiheafccused committed iftn'i offence i Ga'iuthe£ younger girl. Sentence * wasi .defqir^d but His Honour Baid the "prisoner had been oonviotedan 1888 of asiniilar offence at Wellington \l and senten^ec^o four years' penal servitude^ anc};-, t^ cr * were also two convioiifin's; against him for indteqenfc espjosure.