NAPIER. Ist April.
This afternoon a little girl, seven years old, named Smith, was knocked over by the railway engine near the railway station. The child was quite unconscious when picked up. She had an ugly wound on the top of her head, but there were no bones broken. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this rooming George Prior, Donnelly, and Joseph Price were committed for trial on the charge of conspiring to defraud Ranat* K«\fepo. Sees appeared for the prosecution, and applied to have tbe trial fixed to come off at Wellington, because it would take place two months earlier than at Napier, and because there might be feeling imported into the case and prevent a fair trial, The Magistrate declined to grant the application. ' The ease against J, G, Kinross and Sutton, M.H.R., is postponed to Thursday week, because of the difficulty of getting Worgan before the Court, he standing committed for trial at Wanganui on a charge of forgery, and tberefore being, held by the gaoler until the usual gaol delivery.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 384, 2 April 1879, Page 2
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