SUPREME COURT
SITTINGS IN OTHER PARTS OF DOMINION.
(BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, 19th May l_he Supreme Court sessions opened to-day before Mr. Justice Alpers True bills were returned as follow:—John inornas Martin, alleged manslaughterDavid George Stella, alleged indecent assault; Peter Dignari, John Connolly, and Michael FaJlon, alleged breaking and •entering .and-theft; Alfred Stevens, alleged _ false pretences. The Court was M CT t £ U day wiUl the case against Martin, the charge arising out of an accident at Stratford on 18th March, when Ihomas B. Brattle was killed. Brattle was fonnd on the roadside in the evening suffering from grave injuries and 'lied in a few minutes. .That night Martin was arrested, the allegation being that he was drunk while driving a motor-car, and that •he knocked down the deceased and proceeded without stopping.
.INVEROABGILT,, 19th May. Iho bupreme Court sessions opened before Mr. Justice Sim this moraine. The calendar is a light one. John Walter Johnston, for forgery at Tapanui was sentenced to three years' probation, and James Duncan, for forgery of a cheque at Lumsden, to three years' reformative treatment. Darrell Barnaby for escaping from the Borstal Institution and theft from dwellings, received fire years' reformative treatment.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 20 May 1925, Page 9
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