THE COURTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 10, 6 July 1911, Page 5

THE COURTS.

WELLINGTON CASES. f By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Arthur Vincent Evans, a young mail employed as a draper's assistant, was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with having damaged the plateglass windows of a number of shops in Cuba street to the extent of £155 by scratching them with a diamond ring. Accused was arrested late one night a few days ago by a constable and a nightwatchman who had been watching him, and a diamond ring was found in his pocket. Evans was committed for trial, bail in self £S<) and two sureties of £4O each. Two messenger boys were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence for the theft of moneys from letters they had opened at the Te Aro Post Office. The amount stolen amounted to £5 ss, which has since been refunded. The boys were allowed bail at £2O each.

AN ELTHAM CASE. ! Eltham, Wednesday. A ease possessing some peculiar features was heard at the Magistrate's Court to-day. A . young man named George Harry Clarry was charged with criminally knowing a girl under 16 years. Accused and the girl had been previously engaged and had been married subsequently to the commission of the alleged offence. 'Counsel for accused urged that owing to the marriage a further prosecution of the charge would be pointless. The case for the prosecution being, however, independent of the girl's evidence and not on all fours with the other prosecutions whicH were, withdrawn through the subscque ' marriage barring the girl's evidence, the magistrate decided to commit accused to the Supreme Court, b:iil being allowed —accused £SO, and two sureties of £IOO each.