COURT AND OFFENCES

Southland Times, Issue 17619, 6 April 1914, Page 5

COURT AND OFFENCES

" \OT CM LTV. ' (Per United Press Association*. A n.’KLAXF), April .I. After a trial lasting five days a young married man named Hugh Seal Iy was ; acquitted at the Supreme Court on a I charge el' having attempted to commit I rape. Accused was disehurged. The jury passed a resolution thanking Mr I .lnslico Husking fur ids courteous trcal- | ment of till' Jury, and expressed appreI eialion of the manner in which he sum1, marised the evidence. ! pisTridiixi; a aikktixg. AVKLLJXGTOX’. April 1. As a sequel to the scene in the Town Hall ill the Hon. U. M. H. KisJier's meeting. .loiin King was charged before Mr | Cooper. S.M., with ilisordcrly conduet j while drunk. Ai-cisoil pleaded guilty and was‘lined L- and costs or fourteen days' | imprisonment. j WKiiI.IXtITOX SITIIH.MK SKSSIUNS. WKLLIXGTOX. April I. At the Supreme Court Charles Leonard Lea molt Hawkins. a youth eliarged with forgery and* nl tering. was admitted to probation for three years and ordered to find employment and nut leave it without the consent of the probation ollieer. Accused, who is of a roving disposition, owed ;P)s for board and having a cheque for £ j 11s. altered it to £2 ils. Peter Hembery was sentenced to sixyears’ imprisonment for committing an unnatural offence.