SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 434, 17 February 1909, Page 9

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

AUCKLAND. • (DY TBW3GRArH—PRESS; ASSOCIATION.) . Auckland, February 16.. In the Supreme; Court, in: tho, case 'against- : .WiUiata Fitasimmons «Pord.;> charged with " roubfery of" jewellery from tho shop of Pasvcoe, iii . Newton,. Mr.. Justice -Edwards said ■' : it was impossible, on ,the evidence, fp'con- . viot tho accuseds who./was-discharged, arid -, a direction was a prosecution on a. .] .charg'o of perjury of, Tornwhiti,' the Maori . 'who wns ajieg_ed'tp have represented to Ford, that h'e was in possession of stolen rings. ' DUNEDIN. (at association*.) Dunedin, February 16. At fclio Supreme Court to-day, JKdwari • M'Kenzie and. Louisa Jl'Kenzie .were, con-.) victed on a sex charge at' Mosgiel, the jury I making a strong recomiiiendatioh to 1 , mercy, J. especially in ease-of the female accused. Thp i male accused was, sentenced to ;six .mouths'. | imprisonment,, and the female _ accused was 1 ordered to. enter .-into a,,recognisancc of. £20,1 to coma up for sentenco when called upon. John" Stephen Tooihey" was charged with, dia- 1 charging; a rido at 'his stepfather, Daniel I M'Curdy, with intent to maim and. do griev- .1. ousl bodily:harm to him.' -The;jury returned-} a verdict.of liqt, guilty^' adding, "We are ofj:. opinion that tho shot' was fired under • great • provocation, and in\ John : Goodwillie : was; brought up, for sentence dn'j' a charge of house-breaking and entering,' - with- ( intent to,commit.a-crime. Hp was sentenced.jto six mbnths' imprisonment. This ' coil- !, oluded the. Criminal business. ' '- : , PALMERSTON NORTH. .'■ (or TEUSORAPIt—J'UESS ASSOCIATION.! . ' Palsncrstart North, February 16. At "the ..Supromo ,'Court to-day, Herbert' Bcrgstronr, -foutid- 1 . guilty, on .two separate j . charges of. sheeiMtealing, was sentenced to • eighteen, months'; , imprisonment - with ; hard, j•, labour on; eaclr charge, .'.-the;-, sentences'-to j. be concurrent. Geo.'Dawson, who had. an ~ oxtensive record of previous convictions,, extending over his whole life, botli in- Aus-,; tralia and New. Zealand; , was found. guilty of theft from the-person. ... Raivson had stolon a purse from a woman at Foxton faces, antUwas caught in the act. His previous convictions in New South .Wales alone numbered over twenty, arid Judge Chapman : sentonced him 'to three years' hard labour, and classed hini as au habitual criminal.' ; v