AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8039, 22 March 1887, Page 2

AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

(united press association.) Auckland, March 21. Mr Justice Ward, in opening the criminal sessions this morning, said the calendar was lighter than usual, containing only seventeen charges. There were no offences of a heinous character, one of the most serious being’ attempted suicide by a woman, who complained of her husband’s ill-treatment, and another charge against a woman from Tanranga of unlawfully wounding her husband. The others were oases of petty larceny, forgsry, &c. Catherine Jones, of Tauranga, was charged with stabbing her husband with a table knife. She pleaded guilty of the act in self-defence. This was accepted as a plea of not guilty. Evidence was led, and the jury lonud a verdict of not guilty. The Judge, in acquitting the prisoner, advised her in future drunken quarrels to use only the weapons provided by nature. Archibald McNair, for stealing a coat, accerdeon, and 3s cash, was sentenced to six months’ hard labor; William Anderson, for the larceny of a silver watch and gold chain, got two years’ hard labor; James F, Lett, for attempting to pass a counterfeit sovereign, got six months’ hard labor; Jane Horne, charged with having attempted suicide, was acquitted ; Thomas King, Walter Hardy, and Charles Coleman were sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for stealing £25 cash and 10oz gold from John Hughes, a returned digger from Kimberley. Later.

Robert Carr, for larceny, was sentenced to IS months’ imprisonment ; W. MoCreamar, larceny, two years; Martin Sohollin, forgery, seven years; Gordon Forbes, assault and robbery, five years. .