SUPREME" COURT SITTINGS.
(BT* TKIiKGRATH—r'IIESS ASSOCIATION.) . . ■ Napier, September 23. At the Supreme Court, John trough, alias 'Robbie, '/was. admitted to probation for tbreo months on a charge of escaping from custody. Charles .Tipping,' for assaulting a : woman with ; a' spade,.' was sentenced to one month's •imprisonment',. without! hard, labour. Ernest John Mason was convicted of indecent assault on 'a boy at Woodyille, and sentence was deferred Hokitika, Septembor, 23. The hearing of the \Vestport perjury case was,continued this morning.''' "' .• ( •' Haakon 'Haako'nsen' 'gavo - 'evidence generally supporting-the information. Lily Pearco, a little girl of nine,: gave evidence very intelligently as .to. Connolly's visit to the fish shop, where he said he had knocked out a man because bis 'assailant had drawn' r a knife oil'him. . Tlie evidence'went t? show that pt that time Hallinan and Andersen' wero at 'th.o'theatre.' • Percy Carlyon,' gaoler at Westport; in the course of evidence,. said there. was. a good deal of argumerit'and disagreement aniong the police over the case. -Ho denied'some'of the statements made, by leading police ofiipials as to alleged statements, made by witnesses. ,
Tho case" for the prosecution will close tomorrow morning. .
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19080924.2.74
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 8
Word Count
187SUPREME" COURT SITTINGS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in