SUPREME COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1909, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

" CRIMINAL SESSIONS. A JURY DISAGREES. "V 'After an absence of four hours yester••"fiay evening, the jury in the abduction *case heard before his Honour Mr. Jus--iice Chapman, in tlie. Supreme Court, -innounced that they' were unable- to -•agree upon a verdict: The case for tho prosecution was that • Alfred Charles * iWarren on tho -loth October last, . .forcibly, took away from his father's care, and detained him, a boy of ten, —named Spencer Aylmer Wilson Houns■^Tow. The Supreme Court had granted I,'JVm. . . Hounslow, the father, a decree —nisi from his wife, accused Warren " being co-respondent, and had also made *a"n "order giving the father the custody of the children. --' To-day, on the suggestion of Mr. M. \Myers, Crown Prosecutor, the new trial ;was fixed for Monday next. :- BREAKING AND ENTERING. *" 'Alfred George Driscoll and Thomas "'©'Neil appeared .ou a charge of breakarid entering .the shop of E. J. Ellis, ""(Wellington",- on 30th September, . and therefrom 30 watches, 23 watch •"chains, 2 pendants, and sundries. I'Both accused pleaded not guilty. ■""Mr. Richard Jas. Lowe was foreman of •the jury. *- , Mr. T. M. Wilford appeared for Dri-s "*"coll, "and -Mr. Cracroft Wilson •Rr -•O^NeiL «* Mr. Myers,""in"6iTtlining ' the case to Tthe jury, stated that on the night in Driscoll was detected in the "'-act-of rifling a window of the shop, * "The Missing Link," in Taranaki-place, ' "and .a.' large quantity of goods was found "'on his person. Though none were found ■ on O'Neil, it was'the case for the prose--^cution that he -was acting in collusion- / v -with"Driscoll.' ■ ' - • Edwin Joseph Ellis, secondhand ■dealer, deposed that he left the shop at 8.45 p.m., on the evening of the 30th September. The place was locked up. The goods produced witness identified as his. Much of the property, stolen was . ,jnissing. " Constable Mahoney slated that he saw * -Driscoll approach Ellis's window, and ~ shortly after there was a sound of break•*ing glass. Driscoll put a hand (he is one'arnied) through the window. He was 'joined by Q'Neil, and some words __passed between them. When some pedestrian passed, the two accused .walked into the middle of the road relater to the window. The pair were there for about six minutes. As they were leaving, witness arrested them.. O'Neil stated that he was only keeping a look-out for the police. He had nothing. All the property produced was found in Driscoll's pockets. He told the police that O'Neil had broken the window, and put the stuff in his pockets. The jury retired at 12.40 p.m. At 2.30 o'clock the jury had not returned.