CRIMIINAL SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10722, 10 February 1897, Page 2

CRIMIINAL SITTINGS.

(P*b ' United Pkess Association.) .s

"'"'•;';.' :V. •'■' -,-; -L -! .■t_ilm, FebraaryJ}. ~ , ?h* ,Baprems Court criminal sestf oii begin »nd;-cwicltidea;'':, i&dvyi. .;; JTfc&e." wereieight prHoneis- presented for trial—fonriof^ them fratai.Asliburtoh and one from Oimua; * Four pleaded guilty.;; fer forgini aid uttermp^aicheqne at Timara .received 12 months imprisonment; T. Megan, for breaking '"to and stealing from a dwelling, six months; B. Carroll, on two: -similar charge*, ; more - valuable property being taken, 12 months oa each,-concurrent;. J. Hydes, for forging and uttering a cheque for£32 18s, two years. "The last aecdised admitted filling up the cheque but said he only made it -to .".flash "aboufc'Und, gflthnf - too much beer, let it out bf his hands He asked a friend to caab it for him, and the friend Being well known had no trouble in doing so - aS.jthe : Aibbnrfou ; ,Ho!el. 7,.li7 reply to his Honor's warning agajajst ,easaing cheques, the uofcslkeeper said his place was a regolaf bank after the _b»nksclosed on Saturdays. - He of ten cashed £200 -worth >6f-cb«ques on Saturdays. J.'Brbwn, a man ef colour, who has been sentenced to an aggregate of 16 years siribe 1882. was sentenced to""f6uVyeira for "Bfeaking-into a BdiMs ftodittpaling £1 in silver, and'al boy'who wasv»lth.--him and ~ Under his, in4aen* was admitted to probation- for-Sir^moothir-B. Henry, for stealing '£7 from a hotel-bfedroota in Osmaru, received-four months' imprisonment, and was ordered toSmake restitution. %••■•?} w? shS; was acquitted of a charge of breaking.mte.tbe Ashbiirtoii.E^iway Refreshment Booms .with felonious^inte'nt ,at"4-,'a.m. He stated that he entered to get V more' comfortable: ideeping'place a railway carriage tinder the advice of a' comoabioh -who deserted him after aCcidetifcally alarthip.g the proprietor. &" :o -- ' iSV^HdiScfitij' February 9. ; The Supreme.. Cobrfc; sittings opened this n^orning before Mr: Justice JWilH&miC llfred Ddwsett, a carpenter, aged 4*,.pleaded:guilty .teacbafge cf attempted snioide -while: under the influence of drink; aridtfßS ordered >to find * Slii% o£.'£Z6. to-be of. good behaviour for six months'. yThomis.Huston:pleaded guilty to ifcealiug two .horses,; stating that he had been drinking heavily aY the time. He was sentenced to--12-months'- hard labour. Walter, JQoijglas , Dat^lM'sh,- « clerk,-, .pfeaiSedguilty to several charges of embezzlement.from his employer, James Harveyj solicitor, the defalc&trdtisVmbuating fo; oie'r £3QO ; Oa the accasedVbehilf ;itr WssTttged thai" 1 drink- had been the __ sole;cause, of .his tsking ,the moaey. ?is Honor .impos |d[ a' se'oWnce"of liree >ears' hard Hbouf. Frederick Henry Farr,.a youth of 16, pleaded guilty to assaulting and demanding money-ftom James B. Taylor. It was stated that accused had been reading a penny ■ dreadful, and stuck up Taylor by way.of a joke, intending, if be'jot thejnoney, to r'enirn it next dayT' His' Hohomid that' fchongh thecase wasona ;'? J?tishjr he _e ouM not apply.theProbifton Act, be-di<} not Jiiie.tbe idea.of .^ien^ing vyouth: to gaoli'an&itheuaoßused wouldi.be sentenced to thrte^monfchs. -Alexander H-yicker (aged 22) "and Charles Crawford (19), for. entering a home ihd' stealing various articles of clothing, ,wers rtleiasedphprobatioa for 12 months..