SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10266, 8 February 1899, Page 6

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGKAMS.) W£L,LiiSUi.ON, February 7. In the Supreme Uourt true b-Us were found in tiie remainder of tne cases. George AicUoinoe Uorgery), -kdward Waisli (forgery, laise pretences, iiua Dreading ami entering at iVuiatua), rlenry Cseuars (breaking anu entering ac x'aiirier&con xvorth;, ail p*eao.ed •guilty. ' McCit/nibe was sentenced lo luree imprisonment, ana -"aisn to two years' imprisonment. ; fceilars was remanded lor probation olticars' ieport. ihomas lvell.v, alias Murphy, chaiged with manslaugnter, in vie arising out 01 a dispute wiiii a mate at .t'ainicmun JNortn, vii.eh resulted in the latter dying frciii a blow, was convicted, and remanacd tor the report of the probation olhcer. xNAi.-'ii.K, February 7. The Supreme G'ouil calendar comprises nineteen agams; lourteeii piiioners, including live ollenues against jouiig girls, iiie ca&e agaansb Arthur ula*kwood, cuargeu \vii,n obtaining goods under laise pretenuta, broke down, vile accujsea being discharged. i>. ii. Enins pleaded guilty to stealing stamps, value xSAtiH, the pioperty of tiie Government. Mc was reniauued till Thursday. Valdemar aiio pleaded gui-ty to breaking and entering, and was*reuiauued lor sentence. John Jenson tfibson,, lor lorgery, was admitted to probation on payment of £5 and costs. iTrederick Delucey, an eiderly man, was chaiged with indecent assault! upon a girJ eight years of age. Ihe jury faued to agree, and alter sitting four nours they were discharged, and a Iresii trial was ordered.* The Grand Jury found no bill in the case of two young men, Green and Pocock, charged with indecent assault. IXVERCARGILL, February 7. At the Supreme fcourt Albert Edward Rolf, aged tiiceen, was arraigned on two charges of carnally knowing girls, one aged niub years ana tnu ,<%aer agtu Seven. Ue pleaded guilty k> thY lirst charge. His Honour said it was at subject for regret that there was no reformatory in -the colony that might be very beneJlciaJ in such cases. The only institution which answered the purpose in New Zealand was an industrial school, to which children who had not committed any crime were sent, and he could not see his way even to recommend that the accused should be allowed to associate with other children. The only chance for the prisoner was severe punishment and a long* term of imprisonment, to give him an opportunity of breaking away from evil companions. He was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and two whippings of twelve strokes each, the first this day month and the second in four months' time.