CRIMINAL SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13207, 14 February 1905, Page 5

CRIMINAL SITTINGS.

(Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, February 13.

Tho following prisoners were dealt with at the Supreme* Court to-day:—Peter Bartlctt, sheep-stealing, 12 months' probation and ordered to pay £15 costs; Hopa Karangaroa, breaking, entering, and theft, 12 months' probation (no order as to costs); •Tamos Palmer and Harry Robinson, breaking and entering. 18 months' imprisonment: Takopa Kimihanga, horse-stealing. 12 months' imprisonment. \Valter Haslet (who pleaded , " Guilty " to two charges of ■indecent assault) and Frank Ya-s (who pntflred a similar pica in regard to an indictment for breaking ami entering with intont to commit a theft and placing; dynamite in shop with intent to dnmafrc property.) woro romomled for sentence. Alexander M'Keo was found guilty of fraud and theft at r.lr<>taliunn. and" was admitted to probation for 12 monfjis on oondition that ho paid the va-luo of the articles stolen, and also the amount of expenses incurred by the Crown in tho prosecution. CHRKTOHUBCH, February 13.

At tho Supremo -Court to-day Leonard Harrison, on a charge of indecent assault-, came up for sentence, and was ordered to lx> imprisoned for nine months. William Herbert Hayes was convicted of assaultine Edward Hancock with intont. t-o rob, and wu» sentencwi to two years' iinprusonnifint. ■William Hoskins, for thoft from a dwelling, was Fcntencod to six .nvont-hs' imprisonment. Andrew Gallagher pas diseha-rged on a charge of breaking and nntering. Amy Book, for forgery and uttering, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment,