SUPREME COURT.
AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. .. Auckland, Nov. 27. In the Supreme Court, before Sir Robert Stout, Cornelius B. Bryan was found guilty of indecent assault upon a child at Onehunga and sentenced t - five years' reformative treatmem. Kate McDonald, the self-styled daughter of a New York diamond merchant, who obtained £75 by false pretences from an Auckland land agent, was sentenced to four years' reformative treatment. Her counsel stated that the medical examination had disclosed a state of mentality which would account for her conduct. Sir Robert Stout said he had no power to commit her to a mental hospital, but sho could be transferred by the Prisons Board or the Government. William John Marriott, on two charges of theft, was sentenced to three years' reformative detention.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1920, Page 5
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129SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1920, Page 5
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