SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 106, 23 May 1901, Page 2

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

[PER FBBS4 ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, May 22. Henry Johnston, ex-unanager of the Kauri T imber Company, pleaded guilty to charges of in'ent to def.uud, and wan iemanrie.l for x>utence. II ugh Madden, fged 60, pleaded gaiity 10 an indecent, assault on a girl Cve years old anl w-s sentenced to ten years with hard labour, tut was spared flogging owing to his age. Abram Osman, a Turk, charged with beicg a prohibited immigrant who did land in the colony, was remanded till the ship sails a month hence when he will be put ••n brard. Wellington, May 22. Tte c.ieo of Edwaid Pierard, charged with indecent assault on a girl under 16, and in whose case three juries have failed to agree, was rr.ei.tinned to Mr. Justic- Edwards to-day by the Crowu Pn.s cutor, who asked for the d'rection of t'r'e Ci.u-1 f.B to what sro'ild be done. His Honor said that matters 1 f I big kind should not be thrown upon the Court. The Oionn should make a definite t pplicsv ion r.od if a new trial were applied for he would grmt it. 'OouiiS'jl for tic pi is mi r oljectad to this, but the mattor wag eventually allowed to slued ova- till to-moriuvr to ailo.v the Ciowii to ccnsidci'iit.