SUPREME COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 203, 7 May 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Prees Association. Wellington, Monday. The Supreme Court criminal sessions J opened before Judge Chapman, who, in hie charge to the grand jury, remarked that the calendar was the shortest in his experience in Wellington. His Honor called: special attention of the case of Richard Bagge, who was committed from Masterton by the justices on a charge of stealing a horse and cart. "There is no case," said the judge, "made out for his committal." The prosecutor said that he sold accused a horse and cart, his grievance apparently being that he did not receive his money. At the worst, that was a case of a man running away without paying a debt. The sale took place,in 1903, and if the evidence jvas as indicated, the jury would see that no case of stealing had been made out. The grand jury returned no bill in the charge of theft against Robert Bagge. ' Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day .tames Purcell O'Brien, an old man, was charged with indecently assaulting a boy. He was found guilty of common assault and sentence was deferred. The case against James Henry Hope, a middle-aged man charged with having illegally sold liquor to a police probationer, was not finished when the court rose for the day.

BAIL ESTREATED. Wellington, Last Night. There was no answer at the Supreme Court to-day when the name of George Ellis Allen was called. Allen had been committed for trial on a charge of having forged the name of H. Webb to a cheque for £5 and uttered the same to Thomas Page. He had been admitted to bail in the sum of £SO. Mr. H. H. Ostler, Crown Prosecutor, stated that Allen had been admitted to bail, and the police reported that he had absconded. His Honor: Wh en did they miss him? Mr. Ostler replied that' Allen was missed shortly after his admission to bail, when the police wanted him for offences committed after bis trial in the lower court. His Honor (Mr. Justice Chapman) made an order estreating the absconder's bail.