SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 226, 12 February 1913, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

A SERIOFS CHARCtf. Per Press Association. , Christcliiircli, Last Xighfc. j C. J. Russell, M.D., was before the Supreme Court this morning on a j charge of attempting to procure abortion, j Mr. Stringer, K.C.. for the Crown, said that the principal evidence, that of the girl, would be corroborated by evidence as to the visit of the girl to Russell's house, and also the previous visit of one Stanley Robinson. Robinson himself was absent from the Dominion, '■but his brother was called. After hearing evidence, the jury returned a verdiet of not guilty. A WARDER CHARGED. Dunedin, Tuesday. The Supreme Court was occupied with the . case in which Edward Coodall, warder of Seacliff was charged with assaulting an elderly patient by striking him with a stick, kicking him on the jaw and ribs, besides forcing him to work. DUNEDIN SESSD.YS. Dunedin, Last Night The criminal sittings of Ihe Si:p:une Court were concluded to- lay. lei word Goodall, who was charged with having struck and ill-treated a patient at the Seacliffe Mental Hospital, was acquitted. Edward Ross, charged with making a false declaration to the effect that certain potatoes intended for export to Australia were grown on the farm of John Griffen. Te Waewae, was also acquitted. IST DIVORCE. Wellington. Tuesday. A decree nisi in divorce was granted to Margaret Wedderspoon v. Robert Wcdderspoon. HAMILTON* SESSIONS. Hamilton. .Last Night. Before Mr. Justice Cooper, Joseph Mathers, a farmer, was acquitted of the alleged theft of a heifer. Farralley was found guilty of breaches of tjhe Bankruptcy Act and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. In sentencing an elderly man named John Kennedy for indecent assault on a girl asred twelve years, at Ngaruawahia, His Honor said that the prisoner was an object for pity and compassion. In his opinion, he should be in some hospital, between a lunatic asylum and a general hospital, not exactly in gaol. Where a man was suffering from this disease he should be kept for a lengthy period. He ordered the prisoner to be detained for reformative treatment for ten years, and he would make a report on the case to the Prison Board.