BOY'S SERIOUS OFFENCE.
GIVEN A CHANCE TO REFORM. [by telegbaph.—own coerespokdevt.] HAMILTON, Friday. A boy of 14 years appeared at the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Cooper charged with indecently assaulting a little girl at Te Aroha. After a short retirement the jury returned a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy, on account of the prisoners youth. His Honor said he did not want to send a boy to gaol, and if a surety was found who would enter into a bond for th.6 boy's good behaviour for two years he would discharge him and order him to come up for sentence when called upon. The surety was forthcoming.
A man named James Ritchie was charged with the theft of a bicycle at Ngaruawa'nia on June 3, 1916, the property of G. H. Baird. In outlining the case for the Crown, Mr. Gillies said that this was not a case of theft as ordinarily understood, but the evidence would show that the prisoner, after finding the bicycle, took no steps to find the owner, also that the machine could have been identified, because of a green cape strapped on to it. The case had not finished when the Court rose.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16561, 9 June 1917, Page 6
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