SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1913, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

'. (Before his Honor Mr Justice Edwards.) I ; PRISONER.*? SENTBNCED. Herbert Wallace (alias Woman) audi ~ Thomas William Adams appeared before I _ his Honor for sentence on a charge oil ° having committed an assault and° rob-I .. bery. ] s | His Honor said that Wallace had' j. I pleaded not guilty, and had put the! j i country to the expense of a trial. He, i_ 'had been gnilry of robbery with violence, [| which was a crime that must be sup-; .: pressed. He would he sentenced to; n three years' imprisonmcn-t with hard j ,j labonj-. and Adams, who ha_ pleaded j c guilty and of whom nothing was previous- ' a ly known, would be sentenced to IS -'months' hrrprifonment. and a further j term, not exceeding 18 months, for re-j . | formative treatment. ,- i CHARGES OF ASSAULT. James Ferguson and Francis Banks, • two comparatively recent arrivals from • Canada, were charged with assaulting Airs. Agnes Mooken, proprietress of a Grey Street boardinghouse, on December '" 17th last, with intent to commit a r crime. Ferguson was also charged with assaulting a son of the house, William ' Mncken. | " Me-m*. F. J. Stilling and W. E. Hac- ! | ke-tt appeared for Ferguson and Banks j respectively. , j Evidence on the lines of that given in, - the Lower Conrt was given by Mrs. I Mockeu and her daughter, who stated that the two accused entered the house ' ] apparently with the idea of obtaining a I lodging. They were directed to the din-ing-room, but were subsequently found t in a bedroom, one being in bed. When i the landlady protested the alleged asj sault took place. : Both witnesses were cross-examined , by Messrs. liaekett and Stilling in ret g_rd to certain details of their evidence , in the Lower Court.