DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LOSS OF MEMORY GISBORNE, February 18. Frederick Pasley, 25, who disappeared about January'24, after telegraphing his family from Napier, was discovered on Wednesday at Auck land. Yesterday, he was identified by his father, J. K. Pasley of Gisborne. He failed to recognise his father, and the case is established as loss of ntemory, a complaint previously manites ed by the young man.

LINER’S CRUISE. AUCKLAND, February 17.

The Cunard liner Carinthia to-day arrived here in the course of a wor /v cruise, with 300 American tourists. Or the passengers, 254 have previously made trips round the world. A large number of them left for Rotorua. Others will make a motor trip through the North Island to Wellington, here they will join the Carinthia on Tuesday. The vessel leaves Auckland on Monday for Wellington.

NOT GUILTY

WELLINGTON, February 17

At the Supreme Court, John Lightfoot was found not guilty on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond, in that he had been armed with an offensive weapon with felonious intent. The circumstances were that on December 3 last, there was attempted an organised demonstration of unemployed men to Parliament Buildings. The movement was stopped by the police. Lightfoot was taken to the Central Police Station, and the police alleged that the accused threw away a baton with pieces of string fixed to it in the same way as a leather strap is fixed to a police baton. Counsel for the defence submitted that the evidence had not proved that Lightfoot had been in possession of the baton.

The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

NAPIER SENTENCES. NAPIER, February 17

Four prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Blair. Arthur M’Crory, a postal official, charged with the theft of £362 from the Public Accounts was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding eighteen months. His Honor said that he took a lenient view on account of the prisoner’s frankness in confessing.

Desmond Kenny, of Whakatane, a labourer, aged twenty-three, found guilty of indecent assault, was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding fifteen months. Donald Arnott, aged thirty, a farmer, and Margaret Minnie Ethel Gladys Bell, aged twenty-three, a domestic charged with attempted rape on a girl under sixteen, with attempted carnal knowledge and with indecent assault, were found guilty on the last count and each was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding three years. The judge remarked that the jury had taken a merciful view and had a verdict of guilty been returned on the first count he would have considered a flogging for Arnott.