SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 6 February 1907, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

f Per Press Association. Wellington, February ">. At the Supreme Conn, .lohn Burke was found guilty of criminal assault on a girl seven years of age, and wasentenced to seven years, penal servitude, and ordered to receiv two Hog gings, each of 2,3 lashe-. His Honor slid no case had ever been before Ir.m in which such brutal con.liuet by a man to a, child, who-.- infancy and i.n beeility should have been her protection, had been so e'early proved, .la-. £llis. Ja-s. Gerard, and Ceo. William-. charged with assault and robbery, were ac.juitted. The grand jury threw out the bill 'charging William OTlrien and Palmer 6prv, of the City Fire Brigade, with the'manslaughter of Amy Kcn-ington. Timaru, February ■">. At the Supreme Court, to-day, F. W. Davidson, a bakers carter, was 'fliitenced to six months for embezzle incut. The defalcation- di-covored amount to ill'). An Italian named •Angelo Leoni was sentenced to five years ou a charge of assault with in tent. He dragged a girl oil' a bicycle on a public roadway, and violently assaulted her. Edwin Eden and William Wilson, both young men. received two .. years each for stealing :i!l llccccs of '.wool from a shearing -led. Eden was sentenced to four months two years ago for a similar oirencc. Auckland, teliruary ■). At the Supreme Court today, a a el Uerly man named John Manmic.' wa--1 (sentenced t» five years iinprisonmen, for causing actual bodily harm to \\ m Hollis mine manager, at Coromamlo!. on December Ist, Tuc assault was one of stabbing with a shea.th knite. ami Mr .lu-ticc Denniston character iaed the case as a murderous assault. aad the act of a man who waa not safe to be at large.