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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8797, 26 April 1907, Page 2

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Per Pjess Association "Westpokt, April 26.

Peter Gihnour, aged 17, was -.committed for trial for attempted rape on a girl aged 16 at Millertou. He pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a girl aged 17 at the same place, and was committed for seuntenco. Wellington, April 26.

Tames Nosworthy, charged with having sold at Wanganui an instrument which lie believed was to be used for an illegal purpose, was'; sentenced by Justice Chapman to-day to two years' imprisonment. John Riley, with several aliases! charged with breaking and entering, was also sentenced to two years' imprisonment. In the King v. Findlay case, who was convicted of breaking and en. tering the houso of Rcimio, th schoolmaster who was found murl dered at Papakaio, near Oamarn, and sentenced to five years' imprisonment and declared a habitual criminal, the Appeal Court held that the accumulation of circumstantial evidence against the prisoner was sufficient warrant for the jury coming to the conclusion that ho was guilty, and that the verdict was a proper one. The Court refused an order for a new trial, and the sentence stands.