IN THE COURTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8, 7 May 1912, Page 5

IN THE COURTS.

(Per Press Association.)

Wellington, May G. At the Supreme Court to-day James Purcell O'Brien, an old .nan, was charged with indecently assaulting a boy. He was found guilty of 20mmon assault and sentence was deferred. The case against James Henry Hope, a middle-aged man charged with having illegally sold liquor to a police probationer, was not finished when the Court rose, for the day. There was no answer at the Supreme Court to-day when the name of George Ellis Allen was called. Allen had been committed for trial on a charge of having forged the name of H. Webb to a cheque for £5, and uttered tho same to Thomas Page. He had been admitted to bail in the sum of £SO. Mr. H. H. Ostler, Crown Prosecutor, stated that Allen had been admitted to bail, and the police reported that he had absconded; His Honour: When did they miss him ?

Mr. Ostler replied that Allen was missed shortly after his admission to bail, when the police wanted him for offences committed after his trial in the lower Court. His Honour (Mr. Justice Chapman) made an order estreating the abscond or'B bail. The grand jury returned no bill :r tho charge of theft against Robert Bagge. Wellington, May 6. At the Magistrate's Court to-day. Henry Incledon and John Danks, trading as Incledon and Danks, were eaor. fin id 40s and costs for having sole milk adulterated with water.