SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1914, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

A WOMAN ACQUITTED. [Pee Peess Association.] Wellington, February In At tlio Supreme Court to-day, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which Ellen Margaret Seymour was charged with the murder of her illegitimate child. THE AUCKLAND SESSIONAL Auckland, February 17. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court were continued to-day. A young Austrian, Steve Jnrakovich, charged with carnal knowledge, pleaded not guilty. It was stated that lie had since married the girl, a half-caste Maori, 16 years of age. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Accused was remanded for sentence. James Walsh, aged 25, formerly an employee in the Telegraph Department, and latterly a photographer at Rotorua, pleaded guilty to having obtained sums of money (amounting to £279), by means of false pretences, from the Postal Department at Rotorua. It was stated that restitution of the amount involved had been made. The prisoner was admitted to probation for two years, and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. Henry Nightingale, aged 30, a butcher, of Northcote, was fined £5 and costs for assault and causing actual bodily harm. George Harris, found guilty of attempted theft from the person at the Whangarei racecourse, was remanded, pending the hearing of a further charge.