COURT NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 26 February 1926, Page 3

COURT NEWS.

! ♦ 101 SEXUAL ClllilES. j fc f ! JIAMILIUA, Eebruui-y 25. Al the Supreme Court at Hamilton °! u young man, Alan Land Cruickshank Bruce, was found guilty of indecent assault on a little girl at Mot- 0 . rinsville, and sentenced to six months' reformative detention. p A young- ijuarter-easte was c-liafged n with indecently- assaulted a little giri ,p at Gordoutuii. x p p. SEQUEL TO LORRS' 1 RAG EDY. HAMILTON, February 25. The sad fatal accident, which occurred on the Tc Awamutu—Ohaupo road on the evening of December 12. w-hen a motor lorry returning to Hamilton from lo* Awamutu races, upset, killing Ernest Tho-mas White, one of the occupants, and breaking both the legs ol another occupant named Cook, had its sequel in the Hamilton Supreme Court to,day, jj when l.oenard Charles Davis was charg >- ed wifb that, in a stale of intoxiea- / tiou, whilst in charge of a motor lorry p, he did cause the death of White, On account of th,, large number of wit-fte£.s.<,-s, the trial is likely to iaat for two dais. S ■ - ui REHEARING GRAN 1 ED " HAAIH.TON, l ebruary 25. /J Magistrate- \\ ilsQii. gi anted a re- ; hearing tv-day iu the case in which ,a 1 ipdtur bus driver, Sydney Jaipe.s ■ Thomas, was sentenced on Wediiesda.y to seven days' ini|<isounient for steal ing- a steering wheel upd bonnet of . y truck, abandoned on |hc ipadside a( j Alter hearing uf evidence i&’to accused’s character, the sen ten.‘e was altered to probation for three