SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 49, 25 February 1903, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

, ♦ I FEB PBESS ABSOCIITIOK. t Wanqanoi, February 24. At the Supremo Court the charge of i attempted murder of his wife by Jouph - Temperley at Marton on November > 3rH, was heard. The evidtDca was not disputed that accused shot his wife through the nose and then cub her throat with a razor. She struggled and rushed out of th* house and accused then cut his own throat. Bo'h recovered from their wounds, though the bulkt in Mr*' : Temperley has not yet been traced, ■ though the mediol evidence presumed i that it had been swallowed. The jury fouod accused not guilty ou the grounds of being ics&ae when he comm tted the act. He was ' ordered to be detained during the pi* asure of the Coloui il Secretary, i Richard VVickhaui was found guilty of escaping from lawful custody ana remanded for Sfutencr Dosedis, February 24. At the Supreme Court, after a trial j> lasting nearly the while day, Elisa M.etcalf and Esther Saunders, charged *ith performing an illegal operation on a girl, wera acquitted nn l discharged, the jury being uf ipmon there was not -tirticieut corroborated ovideuoe to era* vict. Auckland, February 24. The civil -ittingn opeobd to-day. In he Hction forlibal, brought by Andrew McLarrn aril Chas. Griffiths, mine :en'raeiors at, Kai&ngahake, against Antonio Yealick, a miner, in which the claim was for £I,OOO, the allegation was that Yoalit-k stated to a mine manager, and to a contractor, that (ihiiititt stole some quar'z. Judge U mn'/lly instructed (ha jury that the statement to tha manager was privileged, and as Yoalink deniel having made the statement to anyone else, the jury found n verdict for plaintiff, awarding one furthiug d .ranges.