SUPREME COURT

Grey River Argus, 6 August 1914, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

CHRISTCHURCH SITTINGS,

(Per United Press Association.) CHEISTCHITRCH, August 4.* Francis CJiarles, alias Atkinson, pleaded not guilty to a charge that on May 15th 1914, knowing a document to be a forgery, he attempted to cause one E. TI. Hiley to act upon it as if it were genuine. . Tlie case for the prosecution, as detailed by Mr. Raymohd, was that prisoner in order to secure permanent employment on the New Zealand Railways had presented :i certificate purporting to \w signed by J. C. Adams. That he had passed the fifth standard at the Normal school in 1891, whereas Mr. Adams denied that he had signed such a certificate . ' Accused was convicted and sentenced to three months. Ellen Hawthorne pleaded not guilty to a charge of bigamy, in that her being married to James Hawthorne, she on November 21st, 19913, at Christchurch went through the form of marriage with George Lake (Mr. R. T. Leatham represented prisoner. The defence was that accused believed that her husband had divorced her. "Did the prisoner wh«n she went through the form of marriage with George Lake believe in good faith and on reasonable grounds that her first husband was divorced ? The -jury found in the affirmative* Accused was .formally discharged, a law point being reserved for the Court of- Appeal, For nllegod assault and robbery, Frank xMalcolm and Dnniel Lambert pleaded not guilty to on .Tune ..Bsth,' 1914, at Methven assaulting James Ca-rr and robbing him of various sums .' Mr. J. K. Cunuiughani represented the accused who was convicted and sentenced to 5 years on each charge James Bartley, alias Fulton, was con- | victed on a charge. of assaulting Philip Matz en June H'tli. by hitting him on the head with n spanner und sentenced to ten years.