TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
- In the Supreme Court at K-yier today the jury acquitted Edward George M’Robert on a charge of manslaughter at Waipawa. Roy King, who pleaded guilty to the theft of a motor car and discharging a firearm at Fred Lowe, was sentenced to years’ reformative treatment. A young woman named Ellen Hawthorne was charged, at Wellington with committing bigamy by marrying George Lake in November, 1913, at Christchurch, when she was already married. She was remanded for a week, bail being allowed at £2O. There was an exciting scone last evening in a Christchurch drapery store. A woman was held for shoplifting, and when the police camo she struggled, violently, and stabbed Detective Regan w>th a hairpin. In court to-day Annie Dodds, tho woman in question, was remanded till Friday on a charge of stealing six pairs of gloves and one scarf from Armstrong’s. Mrs Leishman, of Rcefton, is missing. She left a note stating that she intended to make away with herself. Search parties aro out. ■
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Evening Star, Issue 15515, 10 June 1914, Page 10
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