SUPREME COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2772, 15 May 1903, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

The Grand Jury returned true bills *t.g>inst the folhwing p-vsons : — M'AtUte. md Webb, breaking aud entering ; Jamts Gill and James Smith, breaking, entering and th<-ft; Edward Larson, indecent ass_ul'; Percy Csdling, horse ate.\4ng; James Ohout and George Johnson, assault and robbery; Duncan M'Lellan, indecent asiault; David Sandfrl, iucast (two ; Bernard il'Kernan, a-rson ; Frank Hempleton, •__• oezzlement (three cases); Thomas it male false pretences (two cises); Wilfred B*dg;r, ctimin.l libel; Harry Bamford and A. G. Drisc.ll, robbery with violence ; LeonwuJ ~-_ Sleard, indecent assault-{three cases) j W. J. Jones, incest; MicLael O'Malley, W. Murray and J. Coaes, robbery with v» lence ; Walter Hill, fraudulent dealing. No 1 ill was returned against James Frederick Malcolm Fairburn, charged witty indecent as&aulc. At the conclu-ion of Itir wo;k. the Grand Jury, through its foreruw A. H. Tutnbul!, expressed *t* opinion that sevtie personal ch_"itißemej| shoiud foim part of any punishnrent inflicbrw • in correction with sexual offences, sevMJpt. of these cases which came before the jitqf having been of a very deplorable nature."" — Otf.ndcrs in the lower Courts w«ft» ten'.enced as under :—H. F. Smith, burglary, 2 yearß, and H. Lyndhurst, six months John Brown, for a similar offence, got three month?. D. Guidler, for attempted r.pe, got two years, aud F Crabbe, for thef'. three year-. F. Minnia was Ben- — teiiccd to six m-ntha for inc-.t. K. Gill, f ; for stealing liquor at the Alford Forest, ' Hotel, got a month. Edward Larsen, a boy of 15, for indecpnt assault at Woolston, got 1 a wefk and twelve strokes with a rod. P, Codliag, for horse stealing, got six months, and G. Johnson, a year, for assault and J robbey. F. G. Hempleton, for embezzle- '•*"'.. ment at Kaiapoi Brewery, was also seatenccd to a year's imprisonment. Duncan McL llan, charged wi h seduction of a girl 16, was found not guilty. B. MoKernan, ■ for arson -t Ashburton, got 6 monthe M. O'Malley, W. Munay and J. Ooates, for as?au!tiDg and robbing Love Guinness, an old man, in a right of way, Chriatchurch were sentenced to 4 year?, 3 years and 1 years imprisonment respectively. H. Bamford and A. G. Drisooll, ac.u ed of asieuh and rebbery in Lyttelton, were acquitted. William Webb, for breaking and euteiing the warehouse of D. Benj.min and Co., got a year's imprisonment. W. J. Jones was f.>und guilty of incest with his si.ter at HeathcoteVailey and remanded for sentence, David Sandford, for incest with his daugli. - tor at Belfast, got 8 years' impuajmne_,t,