SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. (PBE3S ASSOCIA-lOX TELESIiAit.3 WELLINGTON, Aug. 0. At the Supreme Court Michael Helm pleaded guiltr to a charge or uttering a cheque. Sentence was cef erred. , Margaret McHugh pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy." Sentence was deferred. Hu ,T lt Douglas wa« acquitted on a charge of assault and causing bodily harm. John McCarthy a hand mam was charged with using obscene language of 'a'd.isgusting character to the wire of the proprietor ot the Koval Hotel on May IS lot. > He j.leyled-not guilty and. akhougn luma, he challenged a number ot the iiircr.-:. Erisoiler was undefended hy cnr.ntci. The jury brought- in a vcruict m guilty, and His Honor imposed a lenience or twelve months’ imprisonment without hard labor. As prisoner was being removed ho shouted : "In the. Flag s name, I call on Masons to seize the Court." DUNEDIN SESSIONS. (Press Assoai—tion ' DUNEDIN. Aug. 9. In the Supreme Court- to-day Charles King, for opening a postal packet-, was fined io in default imprisonment not exceeding one month. Thomas Reid was acquitted on a charge of having committed an unnatural offence. A charge of mischief, preferred against- John Riely, was proceeding when the Court rose.