SUPREME COURT.
SITTINGS AT AUCKLAND. [Per Press Association.l AUCKLAND, Feb. S. At the Supreme Court the grand jury recommended, in view of the frequency of assaults on girls of tender years, that the lash should be used with some degree of severity, and in cases where flogging is inadvisable owing to old age, they recommended life 'imprisonment. Henry Sinclair, for theft of a portmanteau from Wavorley Hotel, was sentenced to IS months’ imprisonment, concurrently with a similar sentence for breaking and entering.
SITTINGS AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, Feb. S. At the Supreme Court to-day, the jury disagreed in the case of John Henry Iveson, charged with breaking, entering, and theft at Greytown. A new trial was ordered, accused meanwhile being admitted to bail. The hearing was commenced of the arson charge against Eberhardt Ferdinand Renner. The case was not concluded.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2731, 9 February 1910, Page 5
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139SUPREME COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2731, 9 February 1910, Page 5
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