SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14927, 1 September 1910, Page 4

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. (Per United Puksj Associatioh.) t , AUCKLAND, August 51. In tho Supremo Court the Chief J™, tiro sentenced the following prisonere;Jolm. Sydney.. I ins, brealting and enterics and doctored a habitual crinuliL in °^' bl ™ kin S> entering, and itllcit, 15 months in Invercargill Gaol-' \\ alter Page and Thomas Harnett, having housebreaking implements im their fcgbcssioir, 15 mouths, and nino months respectively at Invercargill; George M. Fcijtor embezzlement and lalso pretences w hfle a canvasser in t,hc Norwich Union office sir months 111 Invercargill. Gaol on each of threa wmi S<6, T - ( f, eOTB ° Augustus Vincent ami wiUiaitt Ivells wore convicted,of tta theft of a piano. Yinoenfc was sentenced to 18\ months and declared a habitual criminal and Kelts (who had committed perjury in, his evidence) .18 months in Invercargill ■" x?V 'w W ?, K ' Jo!m . Roberts was found fmn gU l.V y - r 011 a cl,ar S° ot 'IM theft of fcBOT worth of jowellory from Dr.Parkes'a residence. The accused was found guilty ~ on a minor olmrgo of. receiving. Thij Umet Justice expressed tho opinion that would not have sold tho jewellery unless he had been in poor circumatatiCTs, and ordered him to como »p for sentence if. called upon. ■ Alexander M'Masters -was charged with ■ having assaulted a inapried woman b?ii Constitution Hill, almost in the heart" of the city. Tho court was cleared during tho hearing of the case, and the publication of tho . evidence was forbidden. ' Tho ' trial lasted most of tho day, and the jury retained a verdict of not guilty.Ait I can say," his'Hduor said, "in view of: th». verdict, .is that serious consideration must to given to tho question of whether l it is any uss trying,to.secure oases at,all 111 Auckland." Thonws l Baxter, iodicted upon eight charges of embezzlement, was found guilty on live of clvairg>o6, and) was remanded' for santenbo till-Saturday INVEROARGILt, August : 31. At tha - Supuemc Court to^duy : Albert Edward M'Queeri was- found • guilty on three counts arising out of a bnital as- . sault on a single, young •woman in tho park on Juno' 2. ;Ho was sentenced l to' seven years' hard labour.;

. T -hc court was occupied the..whole 'day in hearing a claim by George, Marshall for £501 damages from J. H. Saiginson ,-for reduction of tho plaintiff's daughter. Bofhi parties reside a--Lintley,;..ncar, Lurasden, Tho seduction was .admitted, but tho 'defendant held that thero had beerr no promise' to marry, .and' that,, as the plaintiff was-on bad terms with his daughter, he had; suffered no damage. Tie juryawarded, £200.