SUPREME COURT CASES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144328, 17 February 1914, Page 6

SUPREME COURT CASES.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON. Feh. 16. At tho Supreme Court the hearing was commenced of the murder charge against Ellon Margaret Seymour in respect of hof illegitimate child Thelma May Davis, whose body was found under a house at Rohr Bay. The case is not finished. AUCKLAND SESSIONS. AUCKLAND,‘Fob, 16. In the Supremo Court, in tho case against Minnie Frewin,_ the , young woman charged with sotting fire to a billiard-room at Huntly, Mr. Justice Cooper said it had been represented that she was driven by ill-treatment from Her homo by her husband, betrayed by another man, and again led astray by tho owner of tho billiardroom'. It was an extremely sad case. He did not want to send the woman to gaol, and placed her in the bands of tho Salvation Army. Subsequently his Honour gave the woman some advice' privately in the presence of counsel. AUCKLAND, Fob. 16. Tho criminal sessions of the Auckland Supreme Court were opened before Mr. Justice Cooper this morning. In tho con rso of his charge to the Grand Jury, liis’Honour remarked that though there were several assault and sexual cases, there was no really serious crime. Bertie Sewell Hunter was found not guilty of a ohargo of stealing f C from tho laundry promises of Fong Long, at Parnell, in July last, and a young Maori, Hone Tauru, guilty of breaking, entering, and theft in the AVhangarei district. Ho had denied tho charge, when brought up for sentence a couple of weeks ago, that he was a person with a police “record” against him Inquiries were made in the interval, and when the youth was placed in the dock again this morning he admitted he was the person who had been committed for reformative treatment for a period not exceeding two years. Arthur Albert Baker, who pleaded guilty in the lower court to making a falso declaration under tho Marriage Act, said the mother refused her consent to her daughter’s marriage, and as she was turned out of her home he secured the license by returning her age at 21. His Honour remarked that it was tho wrong way to overcome the consent of a parent, but admitted that the circumstances justified the imposition of a fine and not imprisonment. A fine of £5 was inflicted. Tohi Hiutora, found guilty of obtaining monev by false pretences and forgery and littering, was remanded until Monday so as to enable the police to investigate the prisoner’s past career.