SUPREME COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19239, 1 August 1924, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

SITTINGS AT AUCKLAND. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 31. At ill© Supremo Court, Maurice Bums Ward was charged was an assault on his sister so as to cause actual bodily harm; also with common assault. In the lower court proceedings last Thursday, Florence Ida Bolton, the woman concerned, said that she didn’t remember tho night when she received the injuries to her head. She remembered going out to post a letter, and the next thin© she remembered was that she was in the hospital. Her brother was very drunk that evening. She was nowliving with him, and had no reason to fear him. The medical evidence was to the effect, that the loss of memory might be due to the injuries received. The defence was that accused was drunk, and did not know what he was doing. A verdict of not guilty was returned, and accused was discharged. The burglary at Avondale Railway St*>tion on the morning of Juno 15, when the safe was blown open and £SB 12s 4d stolen, was retold in the Supreme Court when Esmond Edwin Rodbume Lutterill, aged 35, was charged with breaking and entering and theft, and alternatively with having unlawfully received the sum of money mentioned. After nearly four hours’ retirement, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of receiving only. Sentence was deferred, W r ELLING TON SESSIONS. (Pbb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. July 31. In the charges against Joseph William Moore, a labourer, at the Supreme Court it was alleged that accused stole a suit case and the contents, yalnad at £BB, and a second suit case and a cakestand. It was stated that the suit cases were taikon from clubs and hotels in the city. The total value of the goods stolen was £l4O. About £l2O worth had been recovered. The police searched accused’s residence, and found the stolen articles there. Accused said that he had bought them from a man who had gone away on the Moeraki. A verdict was returned of guilty of theft of a suit case and guilty of receiving the other goods knowing them to have been stolen. Sentence was deferred. In the charge against Frederick Courteney for pooket-picking while a man held his overcoat, accused's defence was an alibi. Tho case is unfinished. George Arthur Jenness, who was found guilty of wilfully attempting to defeat the ends of justice in connection with the purchase of a stolon diamond pendant valued at £65, was fined £2O. CounseTfor accused said prisoner had been guilty of a mistaken sense of his obligation to. the woman who had sold the pendant to him, and had not realised his obligations to the police. His character was excellent, and ho had been in business in the city for 27 years.