SUPREME COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11046, 1 November 1921, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

CRIMINAL SESSIIN OPENS GRAND JURY RETURNS ADD TRUE BILLS. ' ! PRISONERS PLEAD GUILTY. The quarterly criminal sittings of the Supreme Court commenced yesterday before His Honour Mr Justice Hosking. There were thirteen cases set down for hearing. Mr P. S. K. Macassey prosecuted for the Crown. The grand jury were as follow: Alfred Wallace, George Haigh, Arthur Hollis,, Arthur Edward Whyte, Henry Brown Murray, Edmund Powles, Leonard Dowding,, Harold Purser Poole, Thomas Vincent Madden, Arthur Edward Buic-k, James Wilson Brodie, William Arthur Scott, David Hogg, Alfred Morley Saxton, Francis Douglas Kean, Herbert I/ewis, Joseph. Godfned Holdsworth, Alfred Edward Smith, Charles Bainbridge Trimnell, James Alexander Stewart, James Munt, Robert R. Montalk,' and Herbert Griffiths!- Charles Bainbridge Trimnell was chosen as foreman. TRUE BILLS. Hie Honour told the grand jury there were no cases that would give them any difficulty. They returned true hills in all the charges, which were:— Bertram Burwood, alleged forgery and uttering. James Cain, alleged theft. William Hammington, alleged indecent assault. Harold Andrews, alleged thelt. William Murphy, alleged theft. John Lister and Norman Oswald Smith, alleged breaking, entering and theft. Alfred Antonovik, alleged receiving stolen property. George Alexander Waddle, alleged receiving stolen property. Joseph Cecil Armstrong, alleged indecent assault. Gerrard Corvissiano, alleged forgery (four charges) and false pretences. Theodore Woodward, alleged assault with intent to do actual bodily harm. Frederick Walter Roscoe and Henry Charles Holland, alleged theft. Henry Meams, alleged theft and receiving stolen property. Peroival Richard Waddy, alleged indecent assault. THEFT OF MONEY. James Cain, a young man, pleaded guilty to the theft of two sums of £2O from Robert Gob be at Wellington on October 14th. Prisoner was remanded till Saturday for sentence. . INDECENT ASSAULT. William' Hammington, a young mat, pleaded guilty to a charge of indecently assaulting a hoy, aged five years, and was remanded for sentenoe. CHARGE OF STEALING 9s. A plea of not guilty was entered by a man named William Murphy, alias Tyler (Mr A. B. Sievwright) on a charge of .stealing 9s from the person of an' old man, Charles Arthur Glaze brook. Charles Arthur Glazehrook gave evidence that he was a retired army captain and resided at Miramar. He had been in the bar of the Pier Hotel on the day in question. The accused came into the bar, and asked the witness “if he knew him.” Witness identified him as a man whom he had met previously at York Bay. The accused then went out. Later the witness went into an outhouse at the rear of the premises, and while there someone caught hold of his wrists and took some money from his pockets. He tried to catch the accused, hut was unsuccessful. Detective Tricklebank was summoned, and, on returning to the hotel, witness pointed the accused out to the detective. To Mr Sievwright: The man he had seen in the outhouse was the same man he had seen in the hotel. To Mr Macassey: He fully believed that the accused was the man. “I was coming along past the lavatory of the Pier Hotel when I saw a man dart out, and after bumping into me ducked into a doorway of a shop,” said a witness named Frank S. Smith He said he saw the complainant run out and catch hold of the accused who, after shaking him,, ran in the direction of the Huddart Parker Co.’s office. Witness identified the accused in court as the man who had run out of the lavatory of the’ hotel. To Mr Sievwright: It was not a concocted story. He was certain of what he had seen. Alfred Hicks, hotel porter, and Detective Tricklebank also gave evidence for Hie prosecution. The jury retired at 5.20 p.m., and an hour later returned with a verdict of "not guilty.” NO APPEARANCE. Bertram Burwood, alias Esmonde Catero, alias Frederick Theodore Poulton, pleaded not guilty ,to a charge “that he did, on June 30th, at Wellington, make a false document, by altering a genuine document, to wit, a cheque drawn on the Commercial Bank of Australia, Wellington, for the sum of £8 10s to £BO 10s, knowing it to be false, with the intention that it should be used or acted on as genuine.” , There was no appearance of the accused. The court adjourned till 10 a.m. today.