SUPREME COURT.
INTERESTING TRIADS AT TIMARU. TIMARU, July 26. At ti.o Supreme Court, before his Honor Mr. Justice Herdman, Eric Jackson was sentenced to 15 months’ hard labor for false pretences. As he had been previously sentenced i.u Australia ' for theft, he came to New 'caland and obtained an appointment as a teacher in a country school, and - Iso married under a false name.
Wills, a farm laborer, was fined £ls for assault on his employer’s son, striking him on the head unawares with a heavy pole. A young man named Noel Ashton was charged with breaking the window of a bedroom in which two girls were sleeping and dragging blankets from one of them, scaring the girls and their mother ; and on a second count with assaulting the mother when returning to the house after calling a neighbour. ITe was found not guilty on the first charge and guilty on the second. The defence was that some other' person was guilty of the first offence, and accused was too drunk to know what he was doing when, he assaulted the mother. Sentence was deferred. The case of alleged theft of motor tyres is unfinished.—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6141, 27 July 1921, Page 5
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