SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 54, 5 March 1900, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

(Before His Honor Mr Justice Conolly.) At the Supreme Court on Friday Wm. Kiore, a'half-caste, was sentenced to two j'ears' imprisonment with hard labour for having stolen money at Poroti, the property of Austrians. Fredk. Jas. Carr, for stealing a bicj'cle at Hamilton, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Bold Schofield, aged about 30, was indicted that on November 23, 1899, at Waihi, with intent to cause bodily harm, he did assault Police Constable Thomas Whelan, and (2) that on November 23, 1899, atWaihi, he did assault the said Thomas Whelan, causing actual bodily harm. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Constable Whelan said on November 23 he went to prisoner's house to serve him with a summons to appear at the local police court in answer to a charge of assaulting a young lad. On telling prisoner what he had come for, and that he would have to appear at the Court-house, prisoner immediately sprang- at him and knocked him to the ground. They struggled on the ground for a time; he tried to get the handcuffs on prisoner, but the latter escaped, and before he had time to rise the prisoner had picked up a log of wood (produced) and struck him on the left side of the head. The blow stunned him, and he did not recover consciousness till next \ day. He was under treatment from Dr. Wright for nine days, and then for a fortnight under Dr. Haines, oculist, Auckland. Edward Wilson and Dr.' Wright also gave evidence. The jury brought in a unanimous verdict of guilt}- without retiring. His Honor said that the prisoner was a wild and brutal creature, and he had to thank Mr Wilson for pulling him off Constable Whelan, or else he would have been in the dock for a charge of murder, and as sure as he was alive he would have been hanged. The sentence would be ten years' imprisonment with hard labour. At the Supreme Court on Saturday the charge of breaking and entering the Auckland fish market and stealing flat fish and poultry, the property of Frank Williams, preferred against Wm. Reid, Thos. Hunt, May Helen Mills, Jas. Reid, Walter Mark Kenny, Peter Morgan and Chas. Campbell, ended in accused being discharged. After several witnesses had been examined for the Crown, Mr Tole said it was useless going further, as there was no means of identifying the fish. The jury gave a unanimous verdict of not guilty, and His Honor discharged prisoners, with the exception of Chas. .Campbell, who will be brought before the Court to-morrow (Tuesday) morning.