SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 135, 7 June 1904, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

PRISONERS SF_rr_NCED., At the Supreme Court th_ mondag His Honor Mr. Justice Edwarfs otmtenced three prisoners who,had ; pleaded guilty in the lower Court. BREAKING AND ESTEERING. i Walter Perrie, a young- a*4 pleaded guii*y to breaking and enttsißg a warehouse at Napier, said this "f*f the first time he' had disgraced hmistn. and asked for a chancei;'' Drink, her tax, had caused him to commit the __rjm*- -_- His Honor said that dnak-.did not gr make a thief of a man who; wag-hpiwit' when he was sober. Th** report of *«•- Probation Officer was. _i'av<Miril>le, aw he could not, in consequence, grant I**" bation. Prisoner would be"sentence* •" one year's imprisonment. Walter Scott MacCormick, aged W» who had pleaded guilty to stealing a" overcoat from an Auckland lodgi*if house, and to stealing two* _»uas o» money from fellow lodgers ****" asked His Honor to take atto xumov***' tion his "very tender years." . • His Honor" imposed of •? months' imprisonment on eaeh.dMf* sentences to be concurrent.; THEFT FROM A VESSEL. Peter Brown, a seaman, who *»* pleaded guilty to stealing an oUskm*** 1 from the scSooner Clio, askeffor 1~?~ His Honor said the Probationer h** very sensibly suggested that it *0«*» hot be advisable to keep prisoner in "* colony, as, he was not the type Jt» 5£J - wanted here. Prisoner wo_d be meafejj on his own recognisance of *»> would be ordered to come UP *•* •** tenee when called upon.