Supreme Court.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 13927, 4 August 1905, Page 7

Supreme Court.

Per Prert/ Association.

/ ' iWelling^on,^ August 3. At the Supreme Court OKas. Crawford was acquitted of| a charge of stealing lugjgage from! | the Te 'Aro, railway station. Charles Nelson, for forgery, was admitted to probation on payment of the 1 value of the cheque of £20. The/ jury fbuWd) Claude Patterson guilty of having alleged that be had posted }a} - letter* containing money. Prisoner was admitted \ to, probation for twelve months. His Honor reserved a law point for the Court of Ap-'j peal. j CHristcKurcK, August 3. j Mrs Woods, proprietress of a nursing home, was oKaf ged! with the manslaughter Wbf a yotrng woman named Cullen, who died in the home while strapped id the bed. A verdict of. not guilty w/as returned. The bill of indictment against Nurse Atkinson, who had strapped the girl to the 'beS under the direction of Mrs, Woods, was thrown out by, the Grand Jury* ■ . , . , Jlolm Ross, convicted of having used a -spot on the road immediately 'outside the Plumpton Park while a race meeting 1 was, in progress; ''for the purpose of betting-,, was ordered to come up for sentence when ], called J upon, pending legal arsumtent as to whether the spot 1 used s by' tEe' accused i was a /'place" tinker tire- Ac&- •- - -'* *' Weilinjgton, Aug. 4\ in the Supueme, Court this morning, counsel for Mads Brodersen, sentenced to fiv« years' for incest, mtimwtea Ids intention to move for a new trial.