CRIMINAL SESSIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 181, 21 October 1927, Page 9

CRIMINAL SESSIONS

SUPREME COURT CALENDAR SEVERAL SERIOUS CASES Although there is not a heavy list of cases for trial at the final quarterly criminal sessions commencing next Tuesday morning, it includes some grave charges. most serious is that against a A Dalmatian gumdigger, Paul Lendich, who is to stand his trial on a charge of murder and concealment of birth. There is a charge of manslaughter against a prominent jockey, and a case of negligent driving causing death. The usual breaking, entering and theft charges are in the majority, and there are a few* grave sexual cases. Mr. Justice Herdman and Mr. Justice Reed will preside. The list is as follows, and totals 19 cases:— Paul Lendich, murder, concealment of birth, Kaitaia. Walter Scott Bagby, manslaughter. Auckland. Alfred Louis Hastedt, negligent driving causing death, Auckland. Thomas Herbert Skinner and Ina Beatrice Wills, breaking, entering and theft (two charges), and attempting to break and enter, Auckland. Herbert Marshall Brooks, wounding with intent to do bodily harm, Auckland. Leonard Walter Lash, tfeeft, Auckland. Arthur Herbert Eden, attempted rape, assault (two charges), Auckland. William James Courtney, theft (two charges), Auckland. Milroy Thomas Smillie, assault causing actual bodily harm, Auckland. Thomas McWhirter Muir, indecent assault, Helensville. Charles McKinnon, theft and furnishing false returns, Kaitaia. Thomas John Davies, indecent assault on males (four charges), Tauranga. George William Atford, indecent assault, Auckland. William Caple, breaking, entering and theft, Auckland. Francis Henry Rae, Ernest Rae and Kenneth Edwa.rd James McQuoid, breaking, entering and theft, Auckland. Henry Davis, breaking, entering and theft, Auckland. William Henry Glanviile, breaking, entering and theft, Auckland. John Dean Drake, indecent assault, Auckland. Charles Somerville Vincent, theft, forgery and uttering.