SUPREME COURT.
AUCKLAND CASES.'. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Nigh*. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened to-day. In his address* to the Grand Jury, Mr. .Justice Chapman said there was nothing unusual in: tile calendar. The Grand Jury found'no'hill'in the charge against Harry .Johnson, charged with manslaughter, in that as a foreman of a railway gang be failed'to sec that the guy ropes of a derrick were clear of passing trains. A passing train struck one rope, and a workman was thrown heavily and received injuries causing his death. Alfred J. Burrows, a ship's fireman, was found not guilty of theft from th? dwelling of Police Sergfu. O'Grady;, of; Ponsonby.
A young music teacher natucd John Leslie Lauder pleaded guilty to committing an unnatural act and not guilty to indecent assault, of which, however, the jury found him guilty. The judge said the man was utterly unfit to associate with human beings as a free creature; and was sentenced to imprisonment for life on the first charge and ten year* on the second.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 291, 18 May 1915, Page 5
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175SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 291, 18 May 1915, Page 5
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