SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 17 February 1914, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER. A MOTHE.R INDICTED. Ky Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, the hearing was commenced of the murder charge against Ellen Margaret Seymour, in respect t» her illegitimate child Tkelma May Davis,'whose body was found under a house at Rona Bay. The case is not finished. AUCKLAND SESSIONS. A PJGHT CALENDAR.

Auckland, Last Night. The criminal sessions of the Auckland Supreme Court were opened before Mr. Justice C'ooner this morning. In the course of his charee to tho Grand Jury, Hit' Honor "remarked that though there were several assault and sexual cases, there was no really serious' crime. Bertie Sewell Huiter was found not guilty of a charge of stealing £6 from the laundry premises of Fong Long, at Parnell, in July last, and a young Maori, Hone Taurs, guilty of breaking, entering and theft in the Whangarei district. He had denied the charge when brought up for sentence a couple of weeks ago, that he was the person with a police "record" against him. Inquiries were made in the interval, and when the youth was placed in the dock again thi9 morning, he admitted he was the person who had been committed for reformative treatment for a> period not exceeding two years. Artjfur, Albert Baker, who pleaded guiltv in the-lower court to making a false declaratibn under the Marriage Act, said the mother ; refused her consent to her daughter'--marriage, and, as she was turned out of home, he secured the license by re turning her age at 21. His Honor remarkrl that it was the wrong way to overcome the consent of a parent, tin' admitted that the circumstances iustificd tho imposition of a fine and not im«"---onment. A fine of £5 was inflicted. Tohi llintora, found guilty of obtaining money by false pretences and forgery and uttering, was remanded until Monday so as to enable the police to investigate the prisoner's past career. In the case against Minnie Frewin, the young woman charged with setting fire to a billiard room at Huntly, Mr. Justice Cooper said it had been represented that she was driven by illtreatment from ber home by her husband, betrayed by another man, and again led astray by toe owner of the billiardroom. It was an extremely sad case. He did not want to send the woman to gaol, and placed her in the hands of the Salvation Army. Subsequently hia Honor gave the woman some advice p ivately in the presence *f counsel.