INVERCARGILL SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 55, 6 March 1901, Page 2

INVERCARGILL SUPREME COURT.

A SENSATIONAL CASE. ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY TO FORTY-FOUR INFORMATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Jnvercargill, last night. At the Supreme Court to-day Charles Heatley, who had pleaded guilty in the lower Court, came up for sentence for breaking and entering and stealing. The prisoner, with another named Brooks, escaped from a hard labor gang here some weeks ago, and the offence was committed while they were at large. He was sentenced to six months’ hard labor. Brooks will he sentenced in Dunedin, whither he has been removed. FORGING CHEQUES. John Robert Corkhill came up for admitted charges of forging and uttering three cheques for small amounts, and got six months. STEALING A DOG. William Andrews pleaded guilty to stealing a dog in November, 1899, and got three months. He had stolen a horse in the interval. THE EDENDALE CASE.

The sensational Edendale case then came on, Charles Arnett pleading guilty to forty-four informations, including theft, forgery, and uttering, total amount involved being T 478 odd. Arnett, as agent, received the money to pay rabbiters, and appropriated it to his own use, committing forgeries totcover up delinquencies. The more serious charge of attempting to poison Milne, who was tho chief sufferer by the thefts, was postponed till next sitting of the Court. Ho was sentenced to three years’ hard labor. A CASE THROWN OUT. The grand jury threw out an indictment charging H. C. Colyer, with rape of a girl of 12 years, and sent him for trial 011 the count charging him with having carnal knowledge, but after complainant and her cousin, a boy of 15, admitted immorality before Colyer entered the house, and tho boy stated that the girl suggested putting the blame on Colyer, the Crown Prosecutor threw out the case,- a course in which Justice Williams concurred, and the jury, without retiring, returned a verdict of not guilty. This concluded the criminal calendar.