SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON CASES By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, Albert James Adams and Robert Ralph Carr, seamen, were charged with stealing 'tinned fruits, surgical instruments, etc.. "Rom the steamer Corinthic, when at Wellington, in December, It was alleged that prisoners had been drinking heavily and that they broke into tho ship's surgery and purloined the goods, The surgery was accidentally set afire. The jury returned a verdifit of guilty, with no criminal intent, the act, being committed while under the influence of temporary insanity. The Judge said he would have to consider what the effect of the verdict was.
Caesar Walters was found guilty of indecent assault on a. boy. Sentence was reserved.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1916, Page 4
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119SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1916, Page 4
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