SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 12208, 28 May 1904, Page 12

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SITTINGS. Friday, May 27. (Before Fis Honor Mr Justice William*.) The trial of Alexander Gerard and Patrick Giobrm* lasted until after 4 p.m. They w> ro charred with steulinj a watch from Thomas 'griffon. Mr Hanlon defe"ded i>rr?rd.—The jnrv, after an hour's nVlibor»t"on. acquitted Gerard and corvic f ed Cr;b-!n->s-.—The Crown Prosecirtor (Mr PraS'-rl sti'i the "vended was a native of England, a fireman by occupation, and nothing was pr'-M'otisly known against him—His Hop or said be woiiH take into consideration u\e fad that the ac:ns?d bad been in gaol awaiting trial for about two months There wa* no violence accompanying the offence, end the probability was that "the man. like the .ltlicr accused. w;is under the influence of liouor at tlic time. The accused would br set-fenced to four months' imprisonment, v/i'h nard labor Ah-xanw Gardener, convicted earlier in the day of robbing nnd assaulting David Jj-rsyth, vra< brought up for sentence.— I'W Crown Proseutor said that this mnn b--d been in the colonv since his childhood. J;** remoter was rerorted to he had. On thy 19th Junnary. 1903. at Kurow. he was f>c.ntenced to three months' iropironmen' for obscene language.—His Fonnr senten'-ed accused to three years' imprisonment, with hard labor. _ Harold Hamilton, who had pleaded guilty n the lower court to breaking and enterin" tho warehouse of Messrs Bing, Harris, and Co , and stealing therefrom" jewellery of the value of £2on 10s, came up for'sentence. He gave his asre as twenty yeirv Crown Prosecutor said'that'accusal vas practically a stranger in the cnlonv. a hawker, and extremely clever at the husi ness of buying and sell in?. There was no need for him to embark "on house-break-ing, as he was thoroughly competent to CMrn his living out-ide of that.—His Hor-or s,':i.' the (ffenee was a serious one. The accused did not &eem to have been convicted before, and ra comparatively young, but the offence could not be p;issed over lightly. The accused would be sentence! to three years' imprisonment with hard labor The Court adjourned at 5.15 p.m.