SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 4013, 19 February 1903, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON, Feb. 16. At the Supreme Court to-day, a decree nisi was granted in the case George Winch v. Elizabeth Winch. NAPIER, Feb. 14. The jury in the charge against Moore and Mills, for the alleged murder of Lottie Ancell, disagreed, and a fresh trial was ordered for Tuesday. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 11. At the Supreme Court to-day Richard Post was sentenced to three months for forging a document of registration in connection with the ringing-in case Major Robin as Fancy Free. Stanley A. Daley was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for theft of a bicycle ■ from William Woodhouse,, Timaru. An action was commenced ,in the Supreme Court this morning wherein Elizabeth Yarr claims £4O from Robert J. Lochhead damage for loss of the trotting mare Jessie Palm. The evidence was to the effect that the mare had been sent to defendant to be grazed and ' while there was put into a paddock containing a number of felled trees with projecting branches. The mare was impaled on one of these, and died from the injuries; The mare was infoal to Wildwood at the time and was of great value. The jury returned a verdict for defendant in the case brought by Elizabeth Yarr against Robert J. Lookhead, claiming £4OO damages for the loss of the trotting mare, Jessie Palm. NAPIER, February 17. Prior to the jury being called this' morning for the retrial of Moore and Mills with the murder of Lottie Ancell, the Crown Prosecutor entered a nolle prosequi in respect to the charge of murder against Mills. The prisoner was accordingly removed, and the hearing of the charge against Moore was proceeded' with. The evidence tontered was the same as at the former trial, except that of Mr Griffin of Waipawa, who stated that on the day of tho alleged murder a young woman answering to the description of the deceased. asked • witness the way +o Moore’s slop. DUNEDIN, February 17. The Supreme Court was engaged all day in hearing a case in which Yeung Chung claimed £5Ol. damages from Kum You fern alleged slander in teling a constable that 'plaintiff was suffering from 'leprosy, with me lesult that, the constable eventually reported the, matter, and plaintiff was isolated or several days. The jury found for plaintiff, and a verdict was given for £125 damages and costs. LITERATURE OF DIVORCE. ' NEW Nov. 24. After thirty-six years "of wedded life Horatio Victor Newcomb, at one time when President of the Louiseville and Nashville railroad, a magnate of Wall Street, has brought a suit in the Supreme Court for a limited divorce from his beautiful and talented wife, Florence Ward Newcombe. In 1866, when he married, Mr Newcombe declares that his bride was at the time a youngl and beautiful woman,, jjri. the splenduour of youth, unadorned, and I was entranced and enchanted by her natural gifts of mind and charming personality. Mr Newcomb dilates at some length upon his alleged discovery that his wife used artificial means of adding to her beauty through the medium of a camel’s hair brush and . a saucer, and that returning from business in the afternoon, with the natural embrace of a bridegroom in the honeymoon, his lips would be smeared with offensive paint, nauseous, djstastful, and abhorrent to one of plaintiff's sensitive nature. The question of the frequency or infrequency with which Mgs Newcombe took her bath troubles Mr Newcombe, for he remarks ‘ that his father’s house was supplied with convenient bathrooms, which plaintiff solemnly with all ,! the consciousness si;d reajMation. of what an tui'm implies ho never knew her ' o avail herself oi Plaintiff will give her vtie benefit of the doubt that she may have 1 allied in the daytime without his knowledge but close en<,uiry, of the servants and others who were with her in the house failed to establish tliijs satisfactorily bo the mind of plaintiff.” Mr Newcombe says further : “ I bad constructed, by special order a bed to the width of about Oft for my f ormer residence at Louisville because Mrs Newcombe bad mot infrequently in her anger, kicked me out of bed.”