SUPREME COURT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 4 December 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

CRIMINAL SESSIONS

(By Teusgraph — treti association.)

• TIMARU, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day J G. L. Baxter was charged with doing grievous bodily harm to James Bradley on August 7th. At the time accused was a hotelkeeper, and had Bradley as a boarder. Accused found his wife and Bradley together in the latter's bedroom. He violently assaulted him, using a pocket-knife, with -which he inflicted several cuts. There was no .suggestion of serious impropriety on the part of Bradley or Mrs Baxter, though the accused thought so at the time. The jury found accused guilty on the lesser count of assault under severe provocation. Accused was fined £2O, and £5 costs. Jamey Monahan was charged with having committed peiv jury in the Magistrate's Court at Waimate. One George sued accused for £lO, the value of a dog alleged to have been shot by accused. At the heaving, the latter swore that he had no gun on the day of the alleged shooting. Two witnesses swore that they saw him with a gun in hia hand on that day, a-nd one saw him shoot at the dog. A third swore that he had a gun in his house. The Magistrate found for the plaintiff. Tlie accused was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. G. McLeod, for false pretences by selling a valueless fire extinguisher, did not appear. His two bonsdmen were called on to forfeit £SO each. A case of alleged criminal assault on a voting girl was not completed.