SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 206, 28 February 1914, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Hie hearing of the charge of indecent assault preferred against a. elderly mail, named Thomas Brown, of Ponsonby, was continued at the Auckland Supreme Court. The jury returned after four hours' retirement with an intimation that there was no possibility of an agreement. The jury was discharged and a new trial ordered. Frederick Terence Urry, a youthful faini hand, denied a charge of committing rape at Waiheke in July last. The circumstances ns alleged by tile prosecution "were that the accused went to the complainant's bouse at night, and on the plea that her husband was ill in the bush, induced her to go up tin, line. 'J he offence was then committed, accompanied by considerable violence.. A man named White,'who was attracted by the woman's screams, was "laid out" by the accused, who repeatedly threatened to kill tiie complainant if she did not cease her cries. The defence is an attempt to prove nil alibi, but the case wan not concluded when the Court rose. Joseph Williams, a young man, was found guilty of receiving i,i connection with the theft of a large quantity of personal effects from a dwelling nt Remuera. He was remanded till Mondav