SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14684, 18 November 1909, Page 8

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

(Per United Press Association.)

•w i n AUCKLAND, November 17. Mark Craven Richards, for assault the outcome of a filthy practical joke, was sentenced to three months' hard labour; Wm. Duncan, for assaulting an old- woman, received nine months; William Miles, alias German, for theft, breaking and entering, 18 months; Chris Kyium, dcscribcd as an habitual criminal, for theft, two years. Edward Mvcrs, alias Myer, was found guilty of stealing a watch and chain, the property of J. W. Todd, and obtainin" £2 from W. G. Ilart by means of false pretence, and was sentenced' to two years' hard labour. Bernard Olsson, charged with assault on a girl under the age of 12 at Te Awamutu, was found not "guilty, WELLINGTON, November 17.

At the Supreme Court to-day tho jury disagreed in the case in which Alfred Charles Warren was charged with abducting 11k ten-year-old soil of William Honnslow, a printer. llounslow had obtained a divorco on account of his wife's misconduct with Warren, the court granting the father the custody of the children. It was alleged that Hou-nslow 'took the children to a boarding-house at Matierc, in tliEi King Country, and that- the accused and the woman forcibly took the child) away. The father has net- seen the lad since. The caso will be mentioned in the court again tomorrow. Thomas Iliggins and John M'Cart-hy, young men, were convicted of assaulting Charles Heron, fracturing his jaw, and causing other injuries. Higgins was sent to gaol for 18 months, and M'Carthy for nine month?.