SUPREME COURT.
(Per Presß Association.) NAPIER, last night. At the Supreme Court Charles Williams, indicted for indecent assault on two little girls, was found not guilty. ..Herbert Symes pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Probation was refused, but as prisoner had already been five months m gaol, an additional-sentence of one month only was imposed. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. At the Supreme Court Stanley Joseph got two years' probation for assault on a barman at the Grosvenor Hotel. s The Supreme Court returned no bill m each of the three indictments charging J. B. Kirk, a traveller, with appropriating £295, the property of G. L. Beath and Co., his employers. l There was a. peculiar incident at the . Supreme Court to-day. A Maori at the Chatham Islands S.M. Court pleaded guilty to a charge of -forgery and uttering, and was brought to Chn§tchurch for sentence. There was some informality in* the papers. .The Crown Prosecutor got permisssion to place the case before the Grand Jury, simply to correct! the informality, when, to the surprise of everyone," they threw out the. bill. .:
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9070, 12 February 1901, Page 2
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178SUPREME COURT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9070, 12 February 1901, Page 2
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