SUPREME COURT.
NAPIER SESSIONS.
[Per Press Association.] Napier, March 11
There was a very light calendar at the Supreme Court. A Chinese named Shoo Shing was acquitted on charges of carnally knowing a Maori girl at Wairoa. The hearing of the case was very protracted, the whole evidence having to he doubly interpreted. John Maholm was admitted to probation for the theft of two totalisator tickets. Henry Chilling was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, the charge being one of indecent assault on a married woman. BLENHEIM SESSIONS. Blenheim, March 11. In the Supreme Court Sir Robert Stout congratulated the district on the practical absence of crime. The only cases were of breaking and entering and causing grievous bodily harm, the men concerned coming to the district from outside Marlborough. William Gibson, Hugh Richards Plimmester, alias Richard Kelly, and John Campbell were found guilty of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and sentenced to four j years’ reformative treatment.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1914, Page 5
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