SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 35

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

AUCKLAND, June 4. Judge Chapman sentenced Joseph Finn to 10 years’ hard labour for a serious crime. Frederick Ivans, theft from a dwelling, four years; Patrahana Hane, breaking, entering, and theft, 12 months; Charles Edwards, Joseph Lee Sydney, and Herbert Doyle,- separately charged with breaking and entering, were admitted to probation for. three j ears. Henry Vincent Pruning, who stole antique watches from the Art Gallery, received three years’ imprisonment. Pakori Heremai, for breaking and entering at Taupo, was admitted to probation for three years. Hannibal John Marks, for horse-stealing, was admitted to probation for three years. Frederick Kierney, who was captured with a loaded revolver in his possession whilst escaping from a house which he had robbed, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. WELLINGTON. May 28. Two young men, Albert William Foote, alias Jelling, alias Leighton, and Henry Gordon, absconders from the Burnham School, came forward, each to receive sentence on two charges of breaking and entering, and, in addition, the former prisoner had been found guilty of theft. Regarding the accused Foote, his Honor deferred sentence. Gordon was sentenced to nine months' confinement in teh Invercargill reformatory. WELLINGTON. June 4. Walter Andrews, a youth, found guilty of breaking and entering, was shown ta be of weak intellect. The Chief Justice admitted him to 12 months’ probation, on condition that he stayed on a farm inthe country and was not out after 8 o’clock at night. INVERCARGILL, June 1.

Charles William Morgan was acquitted of a charge of criminal assault on a girl. Frederick Osborne Lepine, charged with the theft of documents and stamps from the Deeds and Registry Office, was acquitted. John Archibald Mackay was charged with omitting- to make an entry in his cash book of money received by him on behalf of the New Zealand Loan Company, whose Bluff branch he managed, and also with four other countf of forging names on the wages sheet.. After three hours' retirement, the jury found accused not guilty on the first count, but guilty of forgery, with a strong recommendation to mercy, owing to his youth, his small wages, and position of responsibility. Judgment was de* ferred till to-morrow. June 2. At to-dav's sitting John Archibald Mackay, a clerk in the New Zealand Loan Company. Bluff, was sentenced to 12 months for forging a name on the wages book to defraud the company. James Wilson, builder, was sentenced to one> month for failinsr to keep proper books of account, and ordered to be treated as a first-class misdemeanant.