SUPREME COURT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1919, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

INVERCARGILL SESSIONS.

(BY TELEGEAPH— PHBSS ASSOCIATION.) INVERCARGILL, Aug. 26. At the Supreme Court' Thomas .An- V drew Hannah was ordered to be detain- y ed tor ten years' reformative treatment. William James Perry, formerly ahotelkeeper at Christchurch, obtained a decree nisi against Myra Perry, on the grounds of adultery, and he was awarded £125 damages against the co-

NAPIER SESSIONS.

T _ _ NAPIER, Aug. 26. James Corbett Murphy, alias Sullivan came before the Supreme Court oa a charge of theft of moneys totalling £__*™ ls ', of the Federated Seamen s Union. 'Ihe jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, on account ot the laxity of the management of the ST S l!^ on ** Nap**- His Honor said he would consider the recommendation, and sentence prisoner to-mor-