SUPREME COURT. CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 124, 24 November 1908, Page 4

SUPREME COURT. CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

ANOTHEH -SUES" a3TS"AGB,EES« Thfl"«riminal eeesions->.of tKenSupreme Court were contmaed yesterday afternoon, before Mis. Justice Cooper t -after The Posh ssnenA to press. "A SECOMD TRI£E. Tho jtnry deliberated for an hour and ten nmrafces in the case in which a fh*eman named > &mes Eeid was charged for the ' Second time with having assaulted a labourer named' Thomas Martin at the rear of the Clarendon Hotel, Manners-street, and robbed him of a lyatch and tariffing and £1 0s Id in" cashT "At 1 the expiration of this time the jury returned a verdict of guilty of 6tealing the goods but not the money. .His Honour thereupon remanded prisoner until .Wednesday morning for sentence. A LABOURER'S SATURDAY. The hearing of the charges against Maurice Daniel Paulmeir, labourer, were concluded. Prisoner was charged with, having on Ist November broken and entered the dwelling of Florence O'Donogl>ue, a labourer residing in AlamedawjViac'e; with intent to commit crime. Mr. Myers ajpeajed for the Crown and Mr. W. Perry for the prisoner. The pourt was, cleared during the hearing of the case. His Honour, in summing up, said that the whole question the jury had to consider was th 3 prisoner's intent/. He was found in *he house about midnight of the Saturday night or early on Sunday morning, having been seen both m th 3 rroms of informant's son and his dr.i ghter. If the jury, his Honour went on to say, thought he was sober enough to consider what he was abont, it should convict him, but not otherwise. 1 The jury retired at 4.40 p.m. to consider its verdict, and returned at 5 p.m. with a verdict of not guilty. f ri His \Honour told prisoner that he seemed-to have taken the matter more as a joke than anything else. It was no joke for a man to get into a position like prisoner and go into other people's licuses. His Honour quite agreed with, the verdict jii the jury. Prisoner went 1 into the house in a state of drunken- 1 ness, but it was an improper thing for pebple'to blunder about in other people's houses at tha dead, of night,. It was not prisoner's misforti.ne that he was in the dock ; it was due to his own folly. If he wanted to avoid getting into further trouble he wonld need 'to Keep away horn" drink. He would be discharged. - A NORTH-STREET" INCIDENT. .'A powerful-looking man named John Butler was charged with ha-ving on 17th September - assaulted Anton Larsen, causing- actual bodily harm. ,Mr. Myers appealed for the Crown an.d Mr. O'Leary for the defence. According' to Dr. Gdhner, Larsen' s injuries were on his head. Be had two in'rised wounds and three more or less laceiated wounds. They might have oten caused^ byj the- axevproduced/ - 'Anton^Larßet», wharf "labourer, depc£ed that he knew prisoner and his vple. He remembered being at prisoner's house in North-street on the date in' question. Other people were there, iqo, Thpy l*ad liquor, and subsequently "pEsoner game m slightly under the influence of drink. Mrs. Butler, sat on witness's knee .and attempted to kiss aim. Soon afterwards Butler struck him vnth. a blnofc instrument and knocked him insensible. When he came to, Mrs. Butler was attending to his wounds. She said to her husband, "You kitted Turn." Prisoner replied, "Yes, I killed the . I might just as weß hang for a sheep as a lamb." Witness asked prisoner who injured him, and received the reply that some one else had done it. Witness then went off f py the police. Prisoner deposed thif. when "the kissing incident" happßiied he said he did ■ not like it. Larsen and witness were subsequently the only persona left in the kitchen. He invited witness to a trial of strength. Witness declined, and Laisen caaight hold of him. During the scuffle he swept a quantity of glassware off. a shelf and broke it. Then he fell, striking his head on the fender and cutting himself on the glass. Cross-exam-ined, by Mr. Myers, witness stated that he said to Mrs. Butler, "It is a pity I did not kill him the way he dragged me,,about." Witness denied the other words alleged by Larsen to have been used by him. The jury retired at 6.20. At 10.20 the foreman reported that there was not the slightest probability of an agreement being arrived * at. His Honour discharged the jury, and, on the application of Mr. Myers, ordered a new trial