SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1921, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

CASES AT TIMARU. SCHOOL TEACHERS CRIME. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Last, Night. At the Supreme Court, before Mr. Jus tice Herdman, Eric Jackson was sentences to fifteen months’ bard labor for falm pretences. He had been previously sen* tenced in Australia for theft. He came to New Zealand and obtaind appointments as a teacher in country schools, and also married under a false name. Wills, a farm laborer, was fined £l5 for assault on his employer’s son by striking him on the head unawares with a heavy pole. A young man named Noel Ashton was charged with breaking the window of a bedroom in which two girls were sleeping and dragging the blankets from one of them, scaring the girls and the mother; and on a second count with assaulting the mother when returning to the house after calling a neighbor. He was found not guilty of the first charge and guilty of the second, and sentence was deferred. The defence was that some other man was guilty of the first offence, and accused was too drunk to know what he was doing when he assaulted the mother. Sentence was deferred.