CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1440, 15 May 1912, Page 8

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Er Teleireph-Prcss AjshclsHoili Christchurch, May 4, The criminal Fittings of Hie Supremo Court wuro continued. In the caso of Robert .Tamos Wright, charged wi'.h atIcmptihif to carnally know i\ girl five years of age, tho jury, after twenty minutes'- retirenient. roiiiid prisoner "Xot guilty." Jolin llaino was convicted of entering ei dwelling-house by night, and was sentenced to throe months' imprisonment. The trial of Walter Richard .Sadler on a charge of unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage, was commenced. The. Crown evidence was similar to that given in tho Lower Court. The defence was that His Act was one of indecency only. Xo instrument was used, and there was no intention to commit tho crime charged. The trial is unfinished.

Duncdin, May U. At tha criminal sitting-of the Supreme Court to-day, Susan Miller Wilson was found guilty of performing nn illegal operation. Sentence was deferred. The jury in- bringing ill the verdict made a strong" recom nicucla tion for mercy. . Frederick Percy Evans an ex-employve of the Dunedin City Cnrpor.iti-ju, was found guilty of a series -if offences such as the theft of .£lO, falsifying books, ami forging an account or voucher, and whs scnUHiccd to Ihreu years' imprisonment.

A youth named Claude Osmnmt Harkcr was ordered to come up foi sentence whon called on for stealing a mofor bicycli , , and Peter Henry Greig nml James Alexander Greijf wore sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment and placed on probation for twelve months respectively for the (heft of timber.

The hearing of n charge of *ly grog-sell-ing 'preferred against Margaret l'ar!;er was not. completed when the Court lose.