SUPREME COURT.
[Per Press Association. I AUCKLAND, March 16. Henry Havson, aged twenty-seven, was acquitted of arson at the Supreme Court sessions on the ground of insanity, and was sent to the asylum pending the Colonial Secretary's pleasure. He had been in the asylum ten years ago. Mary Ramsbottom, charged with murdering her illegitimate infant, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to two years hard labour. His Honor, in sentencing the girl, said:—" Prisoner, you have been exceedingly fortunate in that the jury have taken such a lenient view of your case. They would have been quite justified in arriving at a different verdict which would have placed your life in danger. You have been in great peril. I can hardly imagine, under the circumstances, how you could be guilty of such cruelty as to leave your unfortunate child to die" of starvation." A youth, Albert Edward Frost, convicted last week of having stolen a large sum of money and a quantity of kauri gum from the whares of a number of Austrian gum-diggers at Waihopo, was brought up and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6130, 17 March 1898, Page 3
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189SUPREME COURT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6130, 17 March 1898, Page 3
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