SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

FOUR YO.T_FUI BURGLARS. ) HKPI.t MIAI'.I.K I'll!-:, .1, li.H'-NK.s.s

IxsilC l.iullei dratit. (lee.rge Augll.lUS Mllith. Krodorick .spcii,-ei- and Alfred I Hilling, v.,iing in,.n of age-- ranging from I Id te, .1 yens, win, had |,leaded' guilty t., iuirglary and theft a I Thame*, oame! licfor,. Xlr. .lii-.;i,-c Stringer thU morning for ~ont. inc. l-ivideiice .is to charac. tor. iind iv support nf picas lor leniency iv .is taken yc-i it.lay afternoon. His Honor, passing sentence on (.rant and Smith tin and IS v.tare of age. respectively!. ~1,-eried that linn had pleaded guilty to tlire,, charges of breaking ii.n.i cnicring. In on,, tiicy had eirint.il their purpos-i- l.y cutting eiut a door, and in another case i-hev had a: -' tompiixl to .>i<uiin the- kcv.s of th.- Post onice s: rong room with a view 1., a still i more ainhitious cll'e.rt. They had ghownl : a pi-e.euioii-iies.s in crime' that wasbolh .li.pie,ral,!,i -and rcnrarkiilile at 1 lii.ir ag-o. ; XX'io-iiter their imagination lud ireeu . stirred l.y liie kind "f li.-tion thai pre- j -.•in- highwayman and burglars in Hie iighl of heroes a,, did not know. I,u: he! rcali-cei that I hey need,-,! a h-s..n thai j was designed 1" hring thorn hack 1., ihe' path. ~f honesty. Kach prisoner was; sentenced la, a term of twelve month*' j reformative- tro.it merit. and i; would he recommended that they lie -cut to th" Invppt_rj.ilI insi ii ution. spencer i.iged _1 voiir.-i and Hillings ,111 year-, were ordered to come up for sentence yvhe-n cali-.l ii|mn. and each was ' required lo tin.'! a sun-iv of CoO for goo,! ' lipli.ivi.uir lorn period of twelve ni"tiths. A (11 \\'e"K in KKKORM, Daniel Charles McDowell pleaded not guiliy te, a charge tlc.it he had -tolen a horse, carl, and harness belonging to f.'onr.e 11.n.1e-son. He »,,- defended i.v Mr. Allan Moody. The Crown Prosecutor -ai.l tn.it tiie' ~,. used had heen entrusled i.v Henderson to buy an e.iin'n for hawking pur- i pos.-. and i.ei'l heen given a -tart in the j hu-iii-s.-. He had afterward.- taken t,i ' drink. s,,ld ih, 1 car: and horse, aud gone, to Wellington, alien, h" was arrested. Kvid-ti .• "a- calieel tn show that H.-it-.l.-i-..ii. wilh a .!.'-.re lo help the a,- ' rlli-ed. iiad c.,.,-,.,1 Ihe Tl,.rr-e ami l-arl io he purchased. W'heti Ih.- accused started' lo drink iiiAtrii.-t-it.il.- were .i\en thai the earl «..- not to !,,. lak.-u .-.way without I 1,,, ai-eiis-'-ii's -iaieiiieii: Has .hat h" had Ihmmi given general instructions te. gel ri.l ~f tie,, earl. H" had started to drink, aii.l while in a drunken elate had I alien train for Wellington. The jur. returned a verdict 01 guilty. Mr. Xlo.nii a.kid for clemency, suiting! Iliat 111,- aeeused was prepared In make restitution, .en.l ha,l i.ccit in gaol since March. Hi- 11,,n0r admin.■•! n.-ciis.-d t.. iwelv- j month-' probation, and ordered him to' repm ihe sum oi .L Iti ireceipts of sale; and Court ..1.-1-. by monthly in.-it.il- i Ul.'tlt-e of 1-. X >TAI! IX TIIK DARK. i Ih.- lireiinielaiiee- of a Saturday night ton in Wnkelield .street, with an alleged Istuhliiiig all'ray incident lliercto. nere unravelled in the hearing nf the charges against Salvntnro Amoretii that, -with 'mt,-ni. iie ii.i.l .l.jin- actual bodily ha nil 110 ..tee Thomas Dunn. and. further, thai jhe had iis-aiilicel Thomas Dunn, causing j him a, tua' buddy li.inn. Mr. XV. K. Uncki-U appeared tor who I pleaded neit guilty. [ The I 'rnwn Prosecutor said 1 hat so far as hi- iuiuriiiat ion wen: the case -eemeel tee ', 1 f unprovoked assault. Dunn was in the house oi a friend in Wnkelield Street between "half-past ten and a .piarier to eleven o'clock oil ICth j [May. ttheiu lie heard someone outside • call' out. "Dunn, yon •" He wnnt j e.aisiele 5,„.11 after, nnd w.is rushed by j tiie accused. Then- w.ls some scuffling. 1 land later llitnn found that lie had a cut | in his arm. The wound vrss two inches; long, and at one end it was one and J ' lull inch deep. I Thomii" Diimi gave evidence to tlio | above- elicit. Crass-examined hy Mr. ' llackctt. 1.,- declared he had had no drink that night. He naturally thought il was A morel ii who had called 011;. hut he could urn swear in the voice. It was not a fe.reign voice he heard. He would not admit "that he attacked Amoretti. hut he had gone mil in anger when tie lind hoard the voice, call.on;'. A couple .01 hundred people assembled la-ter. and there xvas a good deal of scuffling generally. He did nor nntie'c his arm until four or Hie minutes later. There was a Swede who lived in Punn's vieinitv win, was on very had terms xvith him Thi- Swede had' stated publicly that he Mould "do" for mum. He did not know whether the S.wedo \v_s in the crowd. Amoretti had been aooonipiu-iod by his wile and another laffy. Amoretii. I wife had called out for'the police. He I did not know ytlicthrr Arunret-ti called out. lie was nol nil bad terms with Amoretti. and did not know why Amor-j eui should want to assiault him. As a j matter oi fad. i.e. was not sure that il w.iti Amoretti who struck him. He bad 'gone 1;> the Police iStation to have, the 'charge wiihdr.jxvn. Localise He was not sure" that it 7, a - Amoretii who had n-ssanlted him. Thomas Ma noil.ink. a wharf labourer, in whose house Dunn had been on 1-bc I night of the ncoumTiee. gave evidence. IHe bad pone out on to tbe street a few I seconds after Dunn. He did not see a jhlow struck. and in- went Track into the lioiisc. A feu minutes later he went, out inta. the street again, and joined Dunn as the Utter was coming a.way from a crowd.