SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 295, 16 May 1914, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

DCXEDIN SESSIONS. a , t By Telegraph—Press Association. i( Dunedin, Thursday. '■' At the .Supreme Court to-day, Colin r . ( Fairbairn was found not guilty of in- ?l dieting bodily harm upon John Jury at *" Highcliu" on April 25 and was discharged from custody. K< John Richard Hewitt was brought up P,' on a charge of stealing £2O from the { person of John Campbell, but the per- ' son robbed not being present, the case w was adjourned till to-morrow. nc Francis McDonnell was found not jj, guilty on each of three counts: (1) Rob- a , bery with violence; (2) theft; (3) com- 0 f mon assault. g . Elizabeth Pollock was acquitted on a wi charge of uttering spurious coin with at intent to defraud. The criminal sittings concluded to-dav fa when John Richard Hewitt, charged dc withthe theft of £2OO from the person wi at Forbury racecourse was acquitted, i The following prisoners were sentenced:—Clarence Danker, for rape at Ophir twelve months' imprisonment; Wm. Jas. 3 Conn, for theft at Dunedin, six months' i imprisonment and reformative treatment for three years; Thomas Frederick Victor, on several charges of false representations, eighteen months' imprisonment; John Crisp, solicitor, for forgery and misappropriation and failing to keep proper books, three years' i hard labor; George Havelock Green, , for attempted wife murder at Sawyer's !'.' Bay, ten years' hard labor; John Cecil , -Mercer, for theft from a dweliing and 1: forgery, six months' imprisonment and , rcfounative treatment! Patrick Connol- "' ly, for theft ati Dunedin, two years' im|- 8 C pr.is-onment. lie was warned that he had ai i qualified as an habitual criminal and *'' given another chance. l«a j S EXILE DEPRAVITY. Christchurch, Last Xight. At the Supreme Court, William, Pain. 82 years of age, was charged .on two indictments with having, at -Sydenham, on April 4th. indecently assaulted two little girls, need four and six years .respectively. The jury found accused guilty on both charges, without retir- m '■'«• hi His Honor commented severely On Uie. [.,, behavior of the accused, and said that a , it was only his great age that had saved y u him from ;> term of imprisonment. His Honor ordered Pain to come up for n( j sentence when called upon. . '