SUPREME COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 May 1926, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

SESSION AT DUNEDIN. (BY TELEGBAFH PBE6S ABSOOT > TJON.) DUNEDIN, May 5. At the Supreme - Court to-day, John Chettlc Palmer was charged on three counts with indecent assault upon girls aged seven, six and live years respectively. The evidence of the children and of those in accused’s bootmaker’s shop at the time, was rather conflicting, and some of the witnesses broke down altogether. After a retirement of forty minutes the jury- returned a verdict of not guilty on all counts. AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, May 5. After being refused leave to find that the accused was incompetent, the jury', in the Supreme Court to-day acquitted Margaret Ester Rogers, a married woman, who was charged with having driven a moto'r-ear and thereby' having caused the death of a pedestrian. The case arose out of an accident in Newmarket on January 8, when Mrs Thorburn, aged (IS, knocked down while crossing the roadway to board a tram. One wheel of Mrs Rogers’ car passed over her, and she died of shock the same night. JURY DISAGREES. PALMERSTON N., May 5. In the trial of Herbert Michael Bailey, charged with negligently riding a motor-cycle and thereby causing the death of Maurice Stewart, the jury disagreed and a new trial was ordered. CASES AT WELLINGTON. WELINGTON, May 5. William George Kernam, aged 34, pleaded guilty and was remanded for sentence on a charge of failing to account for £4l 9s 9d, the property of the Wellington Kdnnel Club, of which he was secretary. The accused said he had tised the money for his own purposes. “It seems he is infatuated with this woman. She is not a desirable character for him to associate with,” said the Crown Prosecutor, Mr Maeassey', when a youth of 19, named Ealvert, appeared for sontence for breaking and entering and theft. It was stated that the prisoner had employment in a northern district and would go there. His Honor admitted Ealvert to probation for two years, but made a condition that prisoner did not associate or communicate wiht the woman.