SECOND EDITION. SUPREME COURT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 5

SECOND EDITION. SUPREME COURT.

; . m* ■ [press AssocrATibif.} ' WANGANUL to-day; The Supreme Court sessions opeu-> ed this morning. Mr Justice Chapman,, in his charge to the grand jury, congratulated them that their duties would be light. After to several criminal cases, his Honor dealt with the case of al- , leged murder, in which three distinct charges were grouped in one,. Garlick being eiiarged with -attempting to* murder Chatfield, with attempting to* terrify the latter's wife, and with, attempted suicide. The two men had been in company with each other, and Garlick, in. an excited state, had said Chatfield waskilled, and that he (Garlick)- had chucked him over into tlie river. Chatfield was subsequently found caught in the scrub on the river bank. He had evidently been dragged across the road to ''tbe river side.. ■ . .