POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 249, 18 October 1904, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

YESTERDAY. (Before Mr Kettle, S.M.) Serious Charge Dismissed.—The case' against Wm. Alfred Purcell, who was charged .with indecent assault, was continued. Mr Martin submitted that from the evidence adduced there was no case. The magistrate agreed that the accused had not intended to commit any indecent act, and on the evidence brought forward he could not forward the case to the Supreme Court.- The information was accordingly dismissed. Committed for Trial.—A German youth named Augustave Williams pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial, on ■charges of breaking and entering the factory of Trenwithßros., stealing a pair of boots, and £9 in cash; breaking and - entering the factory of Jaffrey and Coe,"Alexandra-street, and stealing three keys and one mackintosh. Chief Detective Ma.rsack called as wit-, nesses the proprietors of the factories, ■who stated that the premises had been forcibly entered and the articles specified in the charges stolen, -while Detective Kennedy stated that when he arrested Williams he .found everything except the money in his 'possession. •"WiHisms stated that he bought the %bots from a man whom he did not know. fibat he. purchased in New York' M? *4i }>v,-;' ,X