SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON CASES.
I'ER riIEBS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, February 8. At the Supreme Court to-day, Albert James Adams and Robert Ralph Carr, seamen, wore charged with stealing tinned fruits, surgical instruments, etc. from the steamer Corinthic, when at Wellington, in December. It was alleged that prisoners had been drinking heavily and that they broke into the ship’s surgery and purloined the goods. The surgery was accidentally set afire. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with no criminal intent, the act being committed while under the influence of temporary insanity. The Judge said he would have to consider what the effect of the verdict was. Caesar Walters was found guilty of indecent assault on a hoy. Sentence was reserved.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 54, 9 February 1916, Page 3
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119SUPREME COURT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 54, 9 February 1916, Page 3
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