SUPREME COURT.
a brute <;rrs his df.skrts. j ]\v Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland. May 2IJ. In the Supreme Court Mr. .lustice Chapman, in sentencing William John Frederick Moore, a young man charged with grave assault in a girl at WarkW'Orth, described the ollence as one ot the gravest crimes lie had even heard of, being attended with a degree of I brutality seldom heard of in Xew /.ealaind. It was scarcely possible to conceive a worse case so far as fouhsust anil cruelty were concerned. lie imposed a sentence of fourteen years' im-j prisonnient with hard labor, anil ordered two Hoggings each of twenty strokes. DIVORCE COt'liT. Dtinedin, Last Xight. j At the Supreme Court to-day a decree | nisi was granted in the following cases:' .Mary (iillett a - , .lames Gillett. habitual drunkenness and failing to support; Mary Reid v. Charles Reid, misconduct. Wellington, Last Xight. Ebcrhardt Ferdinand Rentier, charged with arson at AVades'town (hi whose ease the jury disagreed in February last) was re-tried to-day. The jury again failed to agree. It. is iprobable a third trial will be held at Napier.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 40, 27 May 1910, Page 5
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181SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 40, 27 May 1910, Page 5
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