Supreme Court.

Southland Times, Issue 12771, 2 December 1893, Page 2

Supreme Court.

(By Telegraph.) Wellington, Dec. 1. Joseph Knight was sentenced to seven years’penal servitude on a charge of burglary at Feilding. The prisoner, who is a young man, has served sentences in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales for housebreaking, his last being ten years’ penal servitude; He told the gaoler he was unable to obtain employment when he arrived in New Zealand, and had committed burglary out of sheer necessity. The Chief Justice said men of prisoner’s class had been coming from the other colonies lately, and the sentence he had inflicted was intended as a deterrent. Daniel Phillips, for indecent assault on a young girl at Belmont, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour, lhe two lads, Edward Cloke and William Burton, for larceny were sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. H. Valleille was convicted of larceny and sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour. In the charge of passing counterfeit money against Denis Driscoll and James Morris, his Honour decided that there was no evidence against James Morris and discharged him. Richard Coyle was found guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, of stabbing a man with a bayonet, under the impression that he had been knocked down by him. Denis Driscoll got three months for pissing a silvered penny as a florin.