SUPREME COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 February 1926, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

TiHEi WELLINGTON SESSION. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 6. At the Supreme Court, the hearing of evidence in the case against W iliiam Smith and Sydney Erne Baurne has concluded. The mother of Baurne stated that Detective Cameron’s statement in regard to Raume's admission that lie knew it was wrong to accept the money was absolutely untrue. Counsel addressed the court.

SIN MONTHS FOR THEFT. WELLINGTON, Feb. 6. When Frank Patrick Fleetwood was on trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of theft of trophies from the We Lesley Club much was heard on the subject of finger-prints evidence and the fallibility of such evidence. To-day Fleetwood appeared before Judge Reed for sentence, and Air. Toogood, counsel for the prisoner, made a suggestion that if the fingerprints in question were those of Fleetwood they were placed on the show case in some mysterious manner. This Judge Reed promptly characterised as absolute nonsense.

In asking for leniency Mr. Toogood said that Fleetwood was a married man.

Prisoner: “No, I’m single.” Mr. Toogood: “He is a single man. with his parents to support.” Judge Reed: ''You don’t even know that, do you?” Mr. Toogood : “Only what the prisoner tells me.”

Judge Reed: “You said lie was a married man.’3

Mr. Toogood; “I thought lie was.” Judge Reed said that the prisoner had debarred himself from receiving probation by going into the box and committing perjury. He sentenced liim to six months’ hard labour.