SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8735, 8 February 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association W Ellington, February 8. Ernest Dyton, aged 17, found guilty of common assault on a girl 9 years old, was admitted to probation for 12 months and ordered to pay costs of prosecution. Francis John Baucke, found guilty of common assault, was ordered to keep the peace for two years audlpay costs of prosecution. Wm. Condon, acquitted on previous day of indecent assault, was put forward on a second charge of a similar character. The Crown offered no evidence and prisoner was discharged. Wellington, February 9.

This morning two men, Kidd and Johnston, convicted of assault and robbery, were sentenced respectively to five years and 12 months’ imprisonment. The assault took place in broad daylight and Kidd violently resisted the police.