SUPREME COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 108, 2 April 1884, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

PRESS ASSOCIAT^qir.j s DunedW, March £31 , Atth§ Supreme Qourkto-day, George Luckliurst pleaded- guilty on five indictments to^inmdulently obtaining goods from tradesmen.: He had repre* sented that a well-known doctor had sent, him for tho goods he was charged with; obtaining* ,-He vras /sentenced to three years .; imprisonment. F. W. Carroll was found guilty of stealing clothes, frpin thftj.ityngdin ? QssJ tf c;fi'om. which l institution, fee been discharged the morning of the theft, and . was ,sentenced'- to, three ..years' ; ihtfarceration. , Sentence .was deferred m case ef William Yoemans, who was .found guilty of an, iodecent assault on a little girl. The prisoner- admitted having served twelve months penal servitude for a similar offence at Invercav^ill., A^peculiar case was that of Henrietta Hunter, who* was charged with s,tealing£j|.lo 4n frajnfe pot^^lie property o^ymyi^m , ; Shaw. ; .The, jase for the prosecution was , Jjlrs Hunter and Jl|rs,Shaw h^<Lbe£n,gossipi^tpgetlteW '"'ijCi^^^yJivJw'.W'jMie habit, of ca'rryingr. : a i: ;bjig' rounds, Her waist containing^ m two compartindMs, £Hoin nbtfes on theOblbniai Bank of Now. South • Wales.' 'This i 4^'t%-s Shawiopenea- to lend Mrs Biinter $1, and then, placed, it jon .neV'^d. . fs'he had occasion . to'go. .^iitsidq r tue hoijse, pu returning njet Mrs Hunter coming 1 out^ith-ttie'bag;n She Snatched the bag from ; her, and found that the Colonial ißanfe' nbtes were gone | but for some reason Mts' Shaw nothing "ibofii 1 !^ robbeiy, fop six 01 seve?i'dayj3. Airs HVinter^sr.ent- to Christchuichj jand though slie had no money previously, .iWasjbhenoyeiytflushiiiand.bcingiariieSted, Lthereawaii about'.£?o m '-€oion»tiß^k notes found concealed m tlieTt&ttt&^fef her hat. The "jury on thLj case^re still deliberating. ;J - <x ; i a• 4 ! Later.. . . , , r , r • The jury j^; Calherine mri^rVc^Se werd unablp r toj agree. „A' "fresh trial will take pla^e to-morrow; Wm. Yeomans, convicted yesterday for indecent assault, %^}^en.tencfealio three years.