COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11977, 21 September 1906, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hokltlka Bupr«m« Oourt. (P«r Uafttd Pre» Association). HOKITIKA, September 21. Ath the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Edwards deliTered the following sentences: — B. Baymond, alias Lawson, who pleaded guilty to an attempted rape on a married woman in a street in Westport, receirtd ten years' hard labour, with three floggings, each of twenty lashes; F. Cameron, anew arriral in the colony, guilty of forging and uttering a cheque for £10 at Kumara, nine months' hard labour ; W. Harsey, junr., stealing amalgam of the ralue of .£l2O from the Consolidated Company at Beefton, two years' hard labour. HOKITIKA, September 21. George Bridgood, on a charge of attempting to commit murder at Greymouth, was found not guilty The second charge of committing an assault will be taken in the afternoon.