SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 512, 20 May 1909, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SITTING. THREE PRISONERS SENTENCED. .1 Among a batch of prisoners who -cauio. up for; sentence beforo Mr. Justice Chapman ;r, yesterday.yas. Gc'orgo Allon, alias Richard* bod, .who had forged and uttered'a chequo Carterton, Vand had i subsequently commit-' -tod.a/similar offonoo at Mangaweka. The Crown Prosecutor .'said that prisoner > ;bad/reoord. v:His. first .pflenco/.wa? tho. tli^i;of/.:apiettdr.:'at: l : ho was sentenced to twelve -months'.iihprisonmont at Blenheim on two charges of: iorg- ■. cry and {also protenccs/ Lastly,lie received. , a sentence of three" months for tlioft of.. . a bicycle! 'His Honour. remarked that it was., clear that prisoner had entered upon, a career of four:offences, on four, dis•K.tihct/occasiens)'.;aiid the had received did not - spem .to have had a v fialutaryieffect.' As ho Vascharged under . two nameSj lio ivould bo sentenced separately,' ;-4>H©'f.i?btild^b6-'>rdord4.>to'- ; W. 'imprisoned; for i bo concurrent. GRANTED PROBATI6N. '■■■ Theft of a.cheque which ho afterwards lit* "tored was-'.the oifenco ;-';for .'which Arthur Praise waj set forward. ; Tho Grown Prosecutor .'said that. prisoner. . arrived in New Zealand fiom. Hobart about 'eight months ago. Por.a timo.ho worked at ■tho Blackball mine,' and not much was known ebout him. Ho would-suggest thai: the money . .found .ill prisoner's possession and;wages: . • due to him should go to meet the amount of . which prosecutor had been defrauded. US': '-Replying ,to . a'; question, ' 'prisoner stated : ;; • ;sug:'^:'Bb^cd;iioiyd;be'adopted.[;-;; ' ••. •-: ;;i u His Horiour said hb ;did not. know, but■: that prisoner to probation. In regard to one of . the oharges ho -would admit prisoner to. • probation i :for ; - two'' ..years, ~ and. with • respect to the other he would bo ordered to ■ coma up for sentenco-when called upon. Tho condition on which such a Icttiont sentence .was passed was that the.£4 15s. 6d. found on . EriOTrier^and,v t i>li©twagesVdue.;to! iih should;bb/hßM^^bveri':H-v v-'j''; £ "Itiseems' to ;be ;al)6ut time;,that; the'Co'tirt' ceased to grant. probation'-hi cases of this • ki-ndy . as their number' is increasing,, but 1 do not like to send a young fellow to gaol I oan help it," added his Honour. : 'THEFT FROM 'A HOTEL. ' Tho next prisoner who was placed in tho .idook -was Jolin T. Driscoll;-.who had,pleaded ... guilty to a: charge ' of: having ■ jstolen somo V clothes froni tho City Buffet Hotel. • vi. The Crown Prosecutor said -.that practic-, ally nothing, was known-about prisoner; who arrived ■: in -rNew ■ Zealand. ■ from 1 England •in - ,: .'His Honour .obsorved that the. Probation ; i \:,.officer'^stated;;that;. ; hefhad not,,yetyhad : time ' to get a full report. Sentence • would therefore be deferred: until Monday -nest. . A UNIQUE CASE. ;; .What -was described- as . ,Trap then considered, . tho' prisonor being - -Rose • H'lnnes;. ■ who had falsely '.'stated on oath that she had >hoon: deserted by a man,. : :deolaredi was ; h,er vhiisbahd, but to' .whom, in faqt, :sbe .wa\ not: married. \ .v".The Crown -said , that nothing .was iknown; against the prisoner.' She had, ..he: continued; -.sinco .married -tha man :who she had previously sworn was her husband. His Honour-i-said ythat prisoner's excuse .was- that. she ' did not•. know 'the Jaw',.', but? tho Court coujd: hardly: believe. that. -If ho v sent her ito .gaol' her-prospects would bo i">- - , perilled. :Ho would order her to come up for sentence when-'called upon.