COURTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9152, 22 May 1908, Page 2

COURTS.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, May 21. The Supreme Court was engaged with the slander case, Mowat v. Betting, arising out of the North East Yalley Mayoral contest. Fifty pounds damages are claimed. Auckland, May 21. At the 'Supreme Court to-day, Thomas Charles Bridsou was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment for violating four little girls. Judge Edwards said “I want to impose_ a sentence which will strike terror into the heart of evil doers of your class, whose numbers appear unfortunately to he increasing in the city. Judgment was given for defendant with costs. Mr Justice Williams said that Betting’s conduct had|been absolutely without reproach. He was sorry the action had been brought, as its only effect was to give to the whole world the fact that there had been an unfounded slander against plaintiff, Mowat. If Mowat had suffered, it was his own fault.