Supreme Court.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 28, 3 February 1904, Page 2

Supreme Court.

NAPIIOU, Feh. 2. At the Supreme Court Andrew Couper. who pleaded guilty to wilftillr burning -down I lie Te Hupaiikn store, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. .1. 10. Crossland, charged with larceny of a cow, was found not guilty, and the same verdict was returned in the case of .loiin I'edrick, charged wilh an unnatural offence. TIMAKC, Feb. 2. At the Supreme Court a trial on two charges of indecent assault res'u'.ted in ai|u|iiittnls. Jn one case the |ir<H.'cu.tii]R' parly was a deaf mule wiio had been taught to speak ami "listen" at, the Sumner deaf mute school. Mr van A sell, principal of the school, acted as interpreter, and with his arsis'tance the girl gave hur evidence 'intelligently. She is now 18 years old, and was only at the school four years. AUCKLAND, Feb. 2.

At the Supreme Court Victor Harper, a Danish labourer, 'denied, a charge of committing rnpe on Hosa Elizabeth Mitol.ell in a paddock at Mount Koskill on Jan. 21st. Prosecutrix said she was returning home when Hie prisonvr met her, and without warming clutched her by the throat. She sn earned, and he su-kl "You scream and I will kill vou." After a brief struggle, in which, the prisoner did not relax his hold of her throat, the prosecutrix was thrown to the ground and unsuccessfully fought awaiirst him. t| u . Jir ; so _ ner miciv, ding in co-mmi tiing the full cume. Crorgr Taylor .Vlilc'hell, husband of prosecutrix, in reply to prisoner, admitted that he had threatened to blow prisoner's brains mil and sii,id he would have done so had ner maintained that he was not the person who assault,,d Mrs Mitchell, ''he jury, after n short retirement, brought m a verdict of Ku ,il, y . u , id Honour said 'tins was n shocking ''■■ line, ani.l the worst that could be commuted s'hort of murd'cr. It was at a time and in „ }Aaw whe ,„ , |((< vu'l'.'m had .-very right t„ consider she was safe from 1,,,,™,, brutes, ■«<-•) as the prisoner. The sentence "'the court would be ten years' hard 'Ubour. u,fh two i!og.gi„e,s of II lashes each.

Wlol,).lN<;to\ feb '> At the Supreme Court li,„', ", " "<"" ( oui t Alexander <>KM', "lias Hogg, was found e-uillv ■•' I'U'-gl'ary and remanded for senVen,e IVmas N.ehols, chnrg,,, w!u, a „e Z ""V" r'" 1 U ' l ' J '""'- -islg e d 8 "" t} "- Tlw J«'o-