SUPREME COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1909, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

[BY THLBGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.} AUCKLAND. Wth June. At the Supreme Court Henry Terawhiti, a Maori, guilty of perjury, in whoso caso the jury made a recommendation to meicy, on the ground that he haci been the catspaw of a clever criminal, appeared for sentence. Mr. Justice Edwards said tho jury did not know the facts as ho did. Had not a solicitor in tho caso in which perjury was committed concealed a shorthand writer in the room in which a conversation between tho parties had been held, tho othor man would have been convicted. Terawhiti escaped scot freo. The perjury had been committed with the object of getting another man convicted. It was a vicious, serious offence, and a scntenco of seven years' imprisonment would be inflicted. Richard White, on forty charges of theft, was sent to gaol for seven years, the Juclgo stating that the sentence had been mado more severe because this, being the first time of capture, ho could not 6entenco him as an habitual criminal. George Mack, for breaking and entering 1 , theft, receiving, and false pretences, was sontenced to two years' imprisonment. William Knox for theft of a penny-in-the-slot birdcage, was sentenced to three years' imprieoninent and declared an habitual, criminal. Edward Knqx," for reeemng, got »'sentence of eighteen months' imprisonment. Frank Tate, oonvicted of a criminal offenco against a girl under sixteen years of age, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.