SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

NAPIER SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, June 10. George Dunn, who was convinced yesterday of the manslaughter of Marion Baird (71), at Hastings, in circumstances of callous brutality, was sentenced this morning oy Mr. Justice Reed to twenty years’'hard labor. His Honor, addressing Dynn, said: “You are rightly convicted of an abominable and atrocious crime. Many men who have paid the penalty of their life for murder have not been guilty of half the brutality you used. The appalling brutality of your crime marks you as being a creature so vile as to be unfit to associate with decent beings.” Mr. Justice 'Reed sentenced the following: John Sims, indecent assault, two years’ reformative treatment; Michael Cuddity, indecent assault, three years’ reformative treatment; Iriwhare Taoho, indecent assault, six months’ imprisonment; Thomas Wentworth Martin, cattle stealing in the Gisborne district, one year’s imprisonment, to be followed by two years’ reformative treatment; Andrew Brice Boyd, for theft, probation for two years. CHRISTCHURCH SESSIONS. Christchurch, June 10. Mr. Justice Herdman gave judgmerft in the claim by the Hain Steamship Company, England, owners of the steamer Trewellard, against the Lyttelton Harbor Board, on account of damages to the steamer in a collision with the board’s tug in Lyttelton harbor on February 3. The claim was for £4OO. Judgment was given for defendants, with costs.