SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14926, 31 August 1910, Page 4

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

(Peb United I'mss Associitioh.) CHRIBTCHURCH; 'August 30. • In the Supreme Court to-day a drforea. nisi was granted in the ca<o of Flo^enc©' Hilda Wliit-fml v. John Whilford on the grouml of bigamy, tho. defendant having been sentenced to a term of imprisonment In tho case of Ed-ward Washbsurn v. Eileen Washbourn, it was shown that the wifo was an inmate flf a mental hospital, and was apparently hopelessly insane. A decree nisi was granted. INVERCARGILL,. August 30. The Supreme Court sittings opened fay day. Sir Justice Williams, in addressing the Grand Jury, said:—"l am very gala to sec that the district continues to bo wliafc it. has been for a long time past, wonderfully .free from serious crime. Thcro is oirly one case for consideration." Albert Edward M'Queen, a young man, ■was charged (1) with violently assaulting a woman, aged 25 years, with intent to render her incapable of resistance; (2)committing an -indecent assault'; (3) assault with intent. The evidence! .for the Crown was to the effect ihut at 8 o'clock in the morning a man eame upon the girl when walking through the park (almost in the centre of the town), and so-brutally assaulted her that her face, when a, doctor saw her _at noon, was. nearly twice its normal size. Ihc screaming of the girl attracted a woman who was' passing 'some distance away, and the man decamped. Tho girl recognised tho acous-d, and ho was also identified by two men as having been seen afterwards in tho park. The case was unfinished when tho court HMO.