SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2975, 22 March 1911, Page 32

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

AUCKLAND, March 15. At the Supreme Court Mr Justice Cooper sentenced Evelyn V. Kiteon, charged with false pretences, forgery, and attempting to commit suicide, to reformatory treatment for a period not exceeding seven years. The accused had posed in different parts of New Zealand as a descendant of the British aristocracy, and had gained admission to leading social circles. Alexander Roscoe Chadwick, charged with fake pretences, forgery, and uttering, wag brought before Mr Justice Cooper for sentence, and ordered five years' detention in a reformatory. GISBORNE, March 14.

At the Supreme Court to-day a verdict of guilty was returned in the case of Pua Babbington and Ngaroaroa Nuku. LNuku, who were, charged with cattle-steal-ing. David Wright, charged with assault on an old man named Edward Hogan, was found guilty. A list of 25 previous convictions was handed in, and the accused was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and an additional three years' reformative treatment. March 15. The criminal, sittings of the SupremeCourt were concluded to-day. James Behash, charged with rape, was found not guilty. Albert Sweeney, charged with breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and John Lemmon, for breaking and entering and theft, to 12 months. Samuel Wadeworth, for receiving stolen property, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. William Third, who pleaded guilty in the lower court to the theft of £4O, was admitted to probation for three years, conditional on his paying 15s weekly and abstaining from intoxicants and horse racing. Pua Babington, a Maori, on two charges of the theft of cattle, was admitted to four years' probation, and was ordered to pay £B, the value of the cattle, and £25, the costs of the prosecution, in monthly instalments of 10s. On a second charge he was ordered to come up for sentence. Ngarakakoa Nuku Nuku, on a charge of cattle-stealing, was released on three years' probation, and was ordered to pay £4, the cost of the- cattle, and £2O, the cost of the prosecution, in monthly instalments of 10s. ,