SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 194, 14 February 1914, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

WKLLiXtiTOX ■■jSKSSIuX.S. By Telegraph—Prtts Association, *' ' Wellington, Last Night. At tin* Supremo Court, Hcrnac Smith,, alias Jfaulsten, pleadeij guilty to iiiiW-, .cent assault, a. nolld* prosequi" "hpfug' entered in another charge of serious offence on the sumo child, age* four-und-a-half years. Sentence was deferred. Frank Collins was convicted of theft from the person and remanded for sen.; tence, Charles Vivian l'orteous, charged wift failing to account for moneys rewire* on account of a third party," was found' guilty and remanded for sentence. Thomas Coffey was -found guilty ,0k " a charge of attempted rape, indecent'ai~" siiult and attempted carnal knowledge" of a girl aged 13 years, who had been brutally assaulted and prevented fiom crying out by having a sheet stuffed into her mouth. The accused admit' - ted being in th« room with the, girl, but denied the offence. Senteoc* ,«ftf t) deferred. ' ■'=« |'j t'IIRISTCHURCri KKSSIofeJ I'"ll-J Christchurch, List Night." In tlm Supreme Court criminal sessions, Charles Edward Carson, for carnal knowledge, was sentenced to six months 'imprisonment. Herbert Jatvis, for alleged sheep stealing, was fore the court, but tile Rearing •'. ;\*M adjourned. Thomas Oeary, for allege)! carnal knowledge, was acquitted. The prisoners Owen, Campbell, MeOw-,,,;•• miek. Smith, Francis. Wood, Hill and JU-iyfli, who, pleaded- earlier •week to extensive frauds on the jfcpstoms Department, will be brought up for sentence on .Monday morning.