Napier Supreme Court.
[fbom ovb OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Napisb, last night. ■At the Supreme Court yesterday, Fredk. Goodall, charged with stealing, in March last, a mare belonging to John Hunter Brown, of Wairoa, was found not guilty ; the case occupied nearly all day. Only two eases were disposed of to-day, both resulting in acquittal. The first was William Garrett, commiHion agent, charged with obtaining 4100 by false pretences from Robert Leask, dentist; the other was a native named Teo Fata, charged with larceny as a bailee of a Snape belonging to Te Airi Patu, from Whom it was all -ged the prisoner had borrowed it, end afterwards sold it at Fraser town for Al 16s. The prisoner’s defense was that the mare was given to him in return tor presents. The charge of murder against Makaore Will be taken to-morrow.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 344, 29 August 1889, Page 3
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139Napier Supreme Court. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 344, 29 August 1889, Page 3
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