AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16397, 17 December 1918, Page 5

AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

• (ITIESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRASt.) AUCKLAND, Decombor 16. At the Supreme Court to-day Patrick Dunn,; concerning whom the jury disagreed last week, was re-tried on charges of breaking and entering and theft in connexion with tho reI cent city burglaries. Ho was found not guiltv. Jamce Davera, Edward J. McClclland," and Walter N. Papesch, previously found guilty of breaking and entering, with intent to commit a crime, came up for sentence. Davern and itcLelland, who TiWdod ; guilty, were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment, to be followed by five years' reformative treatment concurrent with their . previous sentences. Papesch, who on a pre- , vious charge, was admitteS to probation, pleaded not guilty to tho present oharge, and • was ordered to oomo up for sentence when j called upon. | John Arnold, found guilty of an aggravated assault on his wife at A 11t is ton, waa sentenced to seven years' reformative treatment. Mr | Justice Cooper said the accused was subject 1 to ungovernable fits of passion. The Prisons Board would determine whether he could bo released before the end of the term without | risk of him committins a eimilnr crime. . Florence Frances Hull was admitted to probation for two years on a charge of Wiromy. The offence occurred wher. tho accused's husband was in camn. The husband, on being demobilised, forgave her, and took her back, together with a child born to tho other man. I