SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9128, 12 June 1895, Page 3

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

At the Timaru Supreme Court the calendar was a light one, five prisoners having been committed. The Grand Jury threw out the bill agaiust C. Paul, charged with maliciously wounding a horse William Williams was found guilty of stealing a horse, cart, and harness. He was an old offender, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. J. McCoy, charged with stealing £18 from his mate Olson at Rakaia, was found guilty and admitted to probation for twelve months. At first he denied all knowledge of the theft, and said he had picked up the parse and returned £9 to hie mate, and said he would give back the balance when he earned it. He was ordered to pay the prosecutor £9, and £5 towards the cost of the case. P. A.. Mitchell was charged with forgery and uttering a cheque for £10 at Peel Forest. He pleaded guilty, and was seutenced to six months' imprisonment and ordered to pay £10 to the prosecutor. In the case George Aires, charged with forgery and misappropriating orders for money due to A. i J opplewell, the jury were locked up at 4.15, and at 10 returned a verdict of guilty. His Honour sentenced him to eighteen months' hard labour.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, June 11. At the Criminal Sessions, George Douglas, charged with an attempted aasault, war acquitted. WELLINGTON, June 11. The evidence in the Nicholson murdei case was concluded this evening. The counsel's address and the Judge's summing up will probably occupy the whole of morrow. INVERCARGILL, June 11. The Supreme Court oponed this morning before Mr Justice "W illiamß. The calendar includes cases of murder, rape, forgery, perjury, and theft. The Judge's remarks in charging the grand jury were brief. Referring to the Dean case, he simply said thab if the evidence that came before them correaponded with the depositions he had read they could hardly escape finding a true bill. True bills were returned in all the cases. John Comber, a young mayried man, for forgery, waa admitted to probation for twelve months, one condition being that he should abstain from liquor for that period. Wm. John Oalyert, formerly an employee in Fitzgerald's circus, pleaded guilty to an assault on a girl tea years old at Riverton, and was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and one flogging of twenty lashes. William .Soobie, aged eighteen, for larceny, was admitted tc twelve menthe' probation. Alex. McKenzie, aged nineteen, for stealing two cheques, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. A Chinese, Lok'Tsoi, charged with assault on Ah Kong, causing actual bodily harm by biting off his nose in a squabble in an opium den at Nokomai, was found guilty of common assault, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. He was not represented by counsel. This concluded the criminal business, except the Dean murder cases and a private prosecution for perjury, Meikle v Lambert. As the Dean cases hare been arranged for next week, the perjury case will be taken tomorrow, and followed by the civil business. The trial of Mrs Dean will begin on Tuesday next. There are forty witnesses.