SUPREME COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13904, 4 November 1919, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 3. In the Supreme Court to-day Mario Hill and Daniel Murrav, alias Jackson, charged with the theft of £3O 10s from the proprietress of the Trocadcro Hotel, were found guilty. Hill was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and Murray to two years' imprisonment, and to be treated as an habitual criminal. An order was made for thq' restitution of .€29 recovered from the prisoners. Robert Dickson Warden, on two charges of theft from dwellings, was found guilty. Prisoner, who is an escapee from Mount Eden Gaol, presented a revolver at Constable Williams, who arrested him at Sydenham on October 18. His Honor, after detailing prisoner's record, addressed him as follows: "You seem to be an incorrigible rogue, and a menace to the public. I shall sentence you to five years' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent, and I shall declare .you to be an habitual criminal." Frederick David Jones was found guilty on two* charges of receiving stolen goods, sentence being deferred. Charles Halma Harrington, a. postal letter carrier, was sentenced to twelve months' reformative treatment on two counts of detaining and destroying postal packets. WELLINGTON, Nov. 3.

The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened to-day. The calendar is a heavy one, there being thirty-two. charges against 16 prisoners. The grand jury returned no bill in the case of Margaret Ethel Lew, charged with, concealing the birth o" a child. CeciliaHunter was found guilty of forging a, military allotment warrant, the passing of sentence was deferred. In the case of John Lister,.chanred with indecently assaulting a girl of eight years, the jury returned a verdict of common assault" Sentence was deferred.