SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 126, 6 September 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

ALLEGED ABDUCTION. By Telegraph.— Pvi<cs Association. Hamilton, Last Night. In the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Cooper this afternoon, Percy Wright St. Clair was charged with knowing and abducting a Maori girl. He was found not gulty. The case was heard with closed doors.

WAIRARAPA COMPLIMENTED. A DIVORCE CASE. Masterton, Last Night. Mr. Justice Edwards' presided at a sitting of the Supreme Court to-day. In his address to the Grand Jury he congratulated the district upon its immunity from crime. William Ilammington was charged with an act of indecency at Gladstone, and was found not guilty. His case was the only case in the criminal calendar. In the divorce case, Sheridan v. Sheridan and Carroll, the husband's petition, a decree nisi was issued, to be made absolute in three months. The petitioner is a civil servant residing at Gisborne. He married respondent, who is a native, at Master ton in 18!)o. The parties only lived together for two years, and there was no issue of the marriage, and petitioner abandoned his wife. After she had assaulted him on Wellington wharf three years ago, he found she was living with Carroll.