CRIMINAL SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10900, 6 September 1897, Page 2

CRIMINAL SITTINGS.

(Per United Peess Association.) Auckland, September 4. ... A young man, Charles West, alias White, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at the Supreme Court for theft from the persou of an elderly man in Qiaeen street at 10 o'clock at night. His Honor said he was determined to make an example in such offenses. Wellington. September 4. The" jury in the case of Weßtbary; charged with indecent assault, were unable to agree after being locked up all night, and were discharged this morniDg. A new trial was ordered, but the date was not; fisad. A. D. Harper, who pleaded guilty to . forging an' endorsement to a promissory 'having found a surety to guarantee the payment of £20, which, includes the amount of the note, was admitted to probation. Chwlea Ctipps '.and Anniei Brows, charged with immoral ba- | haviouc in connection with-two young girls, were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, his Honor remarking that he hoped the sentence would be a deterrent to adult persons tampering with children of tender years. In the present case he said that the assignation by Cripps at the house of the female accused was evidently arranged,with tha elder girl, and he might have been deceived as to her age, otherwise the sentence would have been more severe. Robert H. Needham pleaded guilty to making a false declaration as to the birth of his illegitimate child,- and was admitted tD probation on the paymenSJof £5. The court than adjonrned j until Monday. - I