SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 286, 30 November 1905, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before Mr Justice Edwards.) PERJURY CASE. The jury engaged in ,the trial ,of Joseph Gardiner, on. a. charge of having committed perjury at the Hamilton Magistrate's Court by denying on oath that he had accused- his -wife of infidelity with a policeman, returned a verdict after a very long retirement. They found the prisoner guilty, but urged His Honox to extend leniency towards him owing to his mind having been disturbed •by his extraK>rdinlany domestic surroundings. Sentence was deferred till to-day. This morning His Honor sent tbe accused to prison for one year. A FOOTBALL SOCIAL. Thomas Henry Calvert pleaded not guilty to having stolen a watch and chain, with bar and pendant, from Ernest Fitzhenry on the evening of September 16. He was undefended. Fitzhenry, an ironmoulder, residing in Graftoiyroad, said that on Saturday evening, September 16, he attended a football social at the Strand Cafe, and left it between 10.30 and 10.45 with a good deal of drink in him. He got into conversation with Calvert, whom he mistook for one of the Thames boys, whom they had been entertaining. Colyert helped him home, and on the way robbed him. William Fleming, another ironmoulder, said he was not at the social, but he met Fitzhenry afterwards and helped Calvert to get him home. When Fitzhenry collapsed in Wynyard-street Calvert produced a bottle of drink and invited witness to knock the head off. Witness turned away to knock the head off, and Fitzhenry called out, "Look out, Billy, I'm being robbed." Looking round witness saw the prisoner's arm throwing some glittering article over the fence, and he taxed" him with robbing Fitzhenry. Witness iouud the chain over the fence, and took Calvert to the Police Station. Henry Flatt, an elderly gardener, said he found the watch produced while working in a garden in Wynyard-street i near the Grammar School. William Charles Knight, chef at the Strand Cafe, Detective Miller, and Constable Nash also gave evidence. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sent to prison for two years, His Honor stating that he had a bad. record of convictions.