SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 222, 14 November 1900, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

m PBSSS ASSOCIATION. WaUiiNQTOii, November 13. In the Supreme Court the following jumtmnJ true bills were returned:— Walter Wftlfrmson, wounding; Mary UcGreger, tbefi; Richard Underwood «adJehnSiddell<, robbery with violence. William Dolan was found guilty of recouping stolen and sentenced to ■ix months. The jury failed to agree i* the- case of assault against Sydney" Bluett. (Xhmstchuiich, .November 13, At the Supreme Court to-day, J. D. Webber, \vho had the previous day gnil'ty to stealing a horse, gig, ■■fl harness, v Tas admitted to probation for 18 months., and ordered to be a total abstainer a iring that period and to make restitution- Thomas Henry Mobin pleaded not guilty to a cnwge I of libelling Thornhi.U Cooper, The case stood over to to enable accused to obtain legal WilliamFahey wag convici-od of break-, ing and entering and thei't, ™ •entenced to three years imprisonment. John Daniel Walker was fou'nd net guilty on a charge of indecent assauij on a child. Edwin Watson, who was convicted on the previous day for theft of a £5 note, was admitted to probation lor eighteen months. William P. M. Haggard was charged with indecent assault on a child of tender year. The man who had beon subpoenaed to give evidence for the defence was absent, and the hearing was adjourned till to-morrow, when witjmbs will be called upon to show cause why the customary penalty should not be enforced.