CRIMINAL SITTINGS
GISBORNE. In the Opotiki assault case, in which Hilton Crosswell was charged with breaking into a house occupied by a woman aged ninety-one years and committing a crime, the' jury' returned a verdict cf guilty on charges of breaking and entering and indecent and not guilty on a charge of rape, adding a rider that the prisoner was of loss than average mentality, and as this class of case was continually occurring the Government should set up institutions to receive offenders of this class. Gwynne Yates was found guilty of obtaining goods by means of a valueless cbecjue and false pretences, and, with Nelson Jcflcote Horne (who had pleaded ,guilty to the same charge), was remanded for sentence. William Edward Bullivant, who pleaded guilty to making a false declaration of marriage, was also remanded for sentence. * CHSISTGHTJEOE, Pobcrt Thomas Rctallick, for indecent assault on males, was sentenced to Hires years’ imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 18668, 24 June 1924, Page 4
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153CRIMINAL SITTINGS Evening Star, Issue 18668, 24 June 1924, Page 4
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