AUCKLAND DISTRICT CRIMES

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1930, Page 9

AUCKLAND DISTRICT CRIMES

■CASE IN SUPREME COURT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The grand jury returned true bills in all 13 criminal charges presented to-day, including _a charge of murder against Arthur Thomas Munn. A plea of guilty was entered by George Allen, aged 21, who was charged with the negligent driving of a motor-car so as to cause bodily injury to three people. The accident happened on January 15 on Ninety Mile Beach, when a lorry driven by Allen ran into the back of another vehic 1 that had come to a sudden stop. He was fined £3O and allowed to retain his license.

A circus employee, Trevor Norman Goote, aged 20, was acquitted of a charge of a serious offence against a girl under the age of 16 years in Whangarfi. Charged with indecent assault upon a boy in Auckland on March 20 Richard Stanley Sinclair, a labourer aged 37, was found guilty. Sentence was deferred.

Charges were preferred against Ernest William Armstrong, aged 49, an insurance agent, of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime and of assaulting his son, Leslie Ernest Armstrong. The allegations were that- the accused visited his wife’s home on April H<' the night after he had been separated from her, broke in through a window and endeavoured to assault his son with a razor.

The hearing of the evidence was unfinished when the Gnurt rose.