SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12501, 24 May 1906, Page 8

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

*•— — # (FBISJ ASSOCIATIOH TE__o*A_t.) SSt AUCKLAND, May 23. . s Jf At tho Supreme Court the following ;A£ Bentences were paesod:—Hare Peeni, '"Sg forgery, thirteen months; Peter Wilson, *vj bigamy, ono year. .■£& DUNEDIN, Alay 28. £$ At the Supreme Court to-day, Gcorgd ,« Stafford Mathicean, a railway pcrter,. „~£ wm -charged with breaking and enter- --W ing and stealing toljacco and cigarettes '%$ After knocking off work, the accused *g| attended a social, whore ho had come ,jw drink, and about 3.30 in the morning Jjj-i he made his way by the back entrance |p t* into a shop. The jury found tfho, IS priKMier guilty of hre-hing and enter- i • ing, but believed he had blundered into ;«». th? placo through a'drunken, mi-take, And had no intention ci oonimitting a m crime. Alir Justice Cooper said he .._$ could take that as a verdict of simplo, Ar larceny. The foreman of tho jury said- "jM that they would like the provisions- of ,'&§| the Fiiet Offenders Probation. Act ap* 11 plied. The prisoner was remanded for * ~-gJ sentence. , _ ... * "Ml AVilHam AVaLquist was charged with _; S S| af-sauit and robbery. It was alleged i£| that, -harin-s com-.- from Ashburton . £#] with' William Alavi-.g. thry knocked .<m about togrbhar in 'the evening, t-hs sM Strang:r b*>:ng eventually taken out to WM Ocean Beach, s-vcr.ly assaulted, and rubied of oi-ihtcen* diißi-ngs. The ~{J| | jury. after four hom-V retirement, woxa ■■« unable to ngrc-., and a. -new trial will jagl ihe held on tbe return of Arr Jiifltioa '« Cooper from tho Timaru' s-esfiions. .^