SUPREME COURT.
(Per Press AoiooiatioD.) Napier, Dec. 9. In the Supreme Court, Joseph Norden Bell, a Sunday School superintendent, was found guilty of rape, and ordered to be brought up for sentence to-day. He was again remanded till to-morrow. Two boys, Connor and Roe, guilty respectively of hoase-brenking and forgery, wore or. dered to enter into their recognizances to come up for jadment when called upon. In Bell’s case, the Crown entered a noils prosequi against a second indictment to save the female children witnesses th# ordeal of repeating the disgusting evidence, Invercargill, Dec. 9. At the Supreme Court to-day Simpson Gregg and Wm L oyd Johnson were tried for shooting a bullock and stealing the carcase at Venlaw Station. Both were acquitted. The Southland News to-night comments on the difference in the sentences passed on Hill at Napier and Dale here for post office thefts and suggests that, if the enda of justice are met in Napier by the application of the Probation Act in a similar case they might well be so here. Poßsiblv Justice Williams himself when he comes to compare the case he has just decided with that dealt with by a brother Judge will deem it incumbent upon him to recommend the Government to take such steps as will equalise the punishments,
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2032, 10 December 1886, Page 2
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