THE COURTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9303, 20 March 1907, Page 7

THE COURTS.

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CHRISTCHURCH, March 19. Hanry Maiques and Alfred Boundy pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court to-day to afcea'ing 55 sides of leather after a fiie at the Woolston tannery on December 1, and wene committed for sentence. Edgar Bevis Mead admitted having received the leather knowing it to have been stolon, and was aUso committed for sentence A iran named Arthur Sparrow, upon severall charges of petty thefts at the Exhibition., was fined 40s on each charge.

NELSON, March 19.

ITi© Supreme Court sessions onened this morning. John William Hawkes was found guiHy of assaulting 'a child, but with a strong reoommendation to mercy. The Judge concurred with the jury, and deferred soater-ce. The tr'al of WiMdain Btettany, the younger, charged wtith converting to his own use a sum of £270 belonging to foe estate of the late William W'lkie, of which accused was a trustee, has commenced and continues to morrow.

In the Supreme Court John W. Hawkes was convicted of indecent assault on a girl under eight years of age, but was admitted to probation for 12 months on the ground of 36 years' blameless residence. The Judge- remarked that the offence was nothing more than one of impropriety, and he intimated that offences against women and cJiildren would be closely watched and severely dealt with. NAPIER, March 19. At the Supreme CoDrt tc-day. Steflla Marsden and Henry Tate, 'Aho hotb pleaded guilty to a charge of theft from the person, were sentenced to six and three months' respectively. A verdict of not guilty was returned in the oases of Mary Ann Vccasivich, or-ajged with concealment of biith. and Tho-ras Todd. carnally knowing Michael Barry who pleaded guilty on the previous day to a charge of theft, was admitted to probation for two years.