SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 6

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

(P«U UmITMH l'UK»* A-SOCIATIOX.) AUCKLAND, February 19. Albert Edward M'Queen and hurry Wilson, prisoners .serving long terms of imprisonment at the. Mount JiAlou Gaol, wero at the Supremo Court today found guilty of assaulting Warder Anderson and Allred Froaskcn, causing actual bodily harm, and aitvo aUcmpuii;, bo escape lrum gaol. Sentence w;u> deferred. Frank Ernest vvatiuig, wno had pleaded guilty to a charge of forging the name of las employer U> a cheque, lor £o, camo up for sentence. It wto stated that his employer- had reposed tiuiueieut commence in him to go bondsman, and to oiler to employ him in the future. His Honor regarded tho employer's action as .most inimauo and generous, and under the circumstances agreed to give the prisoner another chance. He was conviced and ordered to come up for sentence when allied upon. A young man named Thomas Ward, who was delended by Mr Lundon, pleaded not guilty to a charge of the ilielt of a watoii, and gladstone bag, the property of -s. \i. Lusk, at l.e ivum, in reoiuary ol 1912. The accused maintained that the articles had been presented to liim, and ui-e jury touuil liiin noi guilty. diaries Palmer pleaded not guilty to a charge of false pretences. It was stated that lie represented himself as a member of u iOuu-mhavh .uicKluhl family, and induced a tailor to cash a valueless cheque tor nun. AccuseU claimed that fie could prove an alibi, and the case was adjourned to give him an opportunity to do to. Walter Kennedy pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, and wag sentenced to three years' reformative treatment.

WELLINGTON, February 19. In the Supreme oourt to-day oernard Smith was sentenced to seven years' imprisonmjeivt for indecently assaulting a little girl. . Thomas Coffey, on a charge of attempted indecent assault, received three year.); Sydney Hall, on a .similar charge, 22 months; and David Menzies, for indecent assault, five years. The Chief Justice gave warning of his intention to order a flogging in future in all similar cases. Argument was heard on the application by defendants in the libel case of the New Zealand Times v. the Dominion for leave to deliver intenoga.orie-s which sought to ascertain details of the circulation of the Times from the beginning of tiie strike and details ol die auvertißiiig business of the paper before and after the publication in the Dominion of the article complained of. The argument will be resumed to-morrow.

CHRISTCHURCH, February 19. In the Supreme Court, sitting in divorce, much evidence was heard to-day in the case of Archibald Stevens versus Amelia Stevens and Charles Dobson.