SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9432, 2 June 1896, Page 5

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

(press association telegrams.) WELLINGTON, June 1. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened this morning. Tna Chief Justice ru&de no observations to the Grand Jury. Peter Mioklesen and Jamee Young, alias Sauuders, for horse stealing at Lsviu, pleaded " Guilty " and were retnauded for sentence.

Mrs Annie Brown, on a charge of perform- | ing an illegal operation, \v*a brought up for sentence. Mr Jellicoe aaked hie flouour j to postpone sentence till the next sitting of the Court as the prisoner was apjjealiug to the Privy Council agaiust the decision <-.f i the Caurt of Appeal ia her case, and the papers were already on tua way Hotna. The Chief Justice said he never heard of such an application before. Air Jellicoe submitted that the circumstances in this case were special and novel, and the question of postponing seuteuce was uUrtly within his Honiiui'i tlUoretioDi Xhe Olxier -Justice sa-iii he could noc see the prisoner, txia fclonoar aaia J lIJIII Jlt . J 111 ilt II euce ot which she was Xouutl glillty involved & aenceuce of imprisonmeat foe life, but he did not intend to treat her with sucti severity. Her husband, who \vaß UOW serving <& very long sentence on ckie same Could noo have carried on his nefarioua trade without hei , help and aaalst , auce, but there wjls this ia mingaiioii that she WAB living with her (uxsUmiii, aud mighc therefore be said to be under his control. ±£is Honour inflicted a. senceace of two veara' imprisonmeno in Wellington g*ol. VViliiam Mc-Phee pleaded guilty 10 atealiu^ a. bicycle and wns reinauded for aeoteuce. The Grand 0 ury threw oat the bills against Thomas Loouey lor larceny, and Richard Rarwood for breaking aud euteriug. Alfred Koss *nd Thomas Soiners pleaded giuhy to a number of charges of forgery and tittering, and were remanded for sentence. Kichard Ifarwood was found not yuiity on a charge of theft. DUNE DIN, June 1.

The Supreme Court criminal session commenced this iiiu-niug. In the Judge's charge there was nothing of interest. Jamea iSbrachan Johustou, aged 54 years, was sentenced to fifteen mouths' imprisonment on two charges of forgery. Michael C*to, aged seventeen years', was sentenced to atireo months' imprisonment for obtaiuing jewellery by false pretence?, «nd presentiug the same to members of the Gaiety liuriesque Company. John Horn, for stealing from the person, was sentence t to eighteen months' imprisonment ; VVjIIUhi Watts and George Bunney, for breaking into a dwelling to two years; Jatnee JBuro, for breaking iuto a shop, to two years. The.Grand Jury found no true bill against John Anderson. Arthur Alleu Fox, tor damaging property to the extent of £5 by breaking a window, was sentenced to three months' hard labour ; Thoinns McNamara (seventeen), for breaking into a warehouse at Balclu&ha and stealing, to twelve months. Iv the case of James Gray, charged with theft from the person, the jury, aftar a lont; retirement, returned a verdict of " Guilty," and sentence was deferred.