COURTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9097, 17 March 1908, Page 5

COURTS.

Per Press Association, Palmerston N., March 16. The Grand Jury found true bills in the following cases : Edward Jones, alias Johns, indecent assault, Harry Duley theft, Robert Mcllwaine assault and causing actual bodily harm, Frederick James Symons assault and robbery, Albert Duncan Brown, alias Browne, assault and robbery, Francis Robert Linton, breach of the Bankruptcy Act.

The charge against Thomas Wilson Potts, for breach of the Bankruptcy Act was thrown out.

Harry Deeley, charged wih the theft of an overcoat (containing a pocket book with £lO. and a pair of gloves), was found not guilty. Jones (alias Johns) was found guiltyfof indecent assault on a little girl at Aahhnrst, and will be brought up for sentence to-morrow. Richard Mcllwaine was found not guilty of the charge of assaulting Robert Richardson. Cabinet has decided to admit the employees of the Wellington and Manawatu Riailway Company to the Superannuation Fund on the condition provided in the Act. The company has agreed to contribute the sum which was necessary to compound for their back contributions to the fund.