AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14689, 25 May 1911, Page 7

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT.

PRISONERS SENTENCED,

AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL;

• THE criminal sessions of tho Supreme W-Vmrfc wro continued esterda y before L. Justice Chapman. •-VA young, stoutly-built sailor, named ••Thomas Marty pleaded guilty to a '] ar „ o of having stolen a sovereign from C ho trading scow Portland, and also to 'Lring stolen three gold mountings and a wjeketbook from tho scow Southern Isle. ■'Ho bad nothing to say when called upon, ■ i jjj 3 Honor having found from the 1 records that prisoner had been nine times Evicted in Unco years, sentenced him | , two years' imprisonment with hard Jlabour on each charge, and declared him |t'o bo an habitual criminal.

TWENTY years* IMPRISONMENT. ,' a juan named John Andrew Show<,trand, who was described as 49 years of ** », an a carpenter employed at OneVunca was convicted on a charge of havfC committed a criminal assault upon his 'nine-year-old son. Ho pleaded guilty ,{-' the lower Court to a charge •ci iifcest. His Honor, in passi,n<* sentence, said such a man was not fit 1 to be at large, and had ho tho power, ho would unhesitatingly sentence him to imprisonment for life. Tho sentence ot the ; kurt would, however, amount to practieaHv the same thing, for accused would bo sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment with "hard labour on each charge. Tho sentences to be cumulative, winch meant that :- |j e would bo imprisoned for 20 years. BOBBL'RY WITH VIOLENCE. \ voting'man named James Moylan, 'vho follows the occupation of a carter, deaded not, guilty to a charge of having, "in company with another person who Was ■nknowfi, assaulted and robbed Edward ■ William Taylor of £1 lis lOd, a return steamer ticket, a postal note, and some - less valuable articles. The wise was that 'the prosecuting witness, Edward William Tavlor was a visitor from VVhangarei, who went into an hotel and there mot accused and another man. They had several drinks together, and then Taylor was induced by prisoner and his mate to go to a secluded place in Hobson-street, ■ffhoro they assaulted him, and possessed themselves of all his valuables Iho accused endeavoured to establish an alibi "but the jury, having deliberated for about vnuartcv of an hour, returned a verdict of eniltv, and the prisoner was sentenced 'to 18 months' imprisonment with hard ' The Court then adjourned until 10 a.m. "tho following day.