Supreme Court

Southland Times, Issue 12773, 5 December 1893, Page 2

Supreme Court

[By Telegraph.] ■ Wellington, Dec.’; 4.- ’ F. Philpot was sentenced to two years for obtaining money from a girl whom he had promised to marry, on the pretence that (a large sum was coming to him from England. In the case of William Thomas) charged with perjury, the jury are unable ’to agree and have been locked up for'the night; 1 ' J 3 In the Divorce Court, Rowe and ’Rowe (the husband’s petition), the’ Judge took time to consider, as it was shown |that the man had deserted his wife and children. The woman went to the bad, and the husband, who had just been brought back on a charge of desertion, then brought the suit. InWiggv. Wigg the order for dissolution was made absolute. Berg, a domestic servant, sought a dissolution of marriage with her husband, Samuel Berg, bootmaker, on the ground of adultery with Ethel Bushby and others. The parties were married in Wellington in 1887, and adultery and desertion having been clearly proved, Mr Justice Richmond granted decree nisi. Dunedin, Dec. 4.

The Grand Jury returned true bills in all but the case of William Roaoh, charged with housebreaking. Joseph Evans, found guilty of an aggravated assault on a woman named Ruston, was sentenced to hard labour for two (?) months ; Catherine Stevenson, for maliciously wounding another woman, got two years; Annie Robertson pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, and received a three years’ sentence ; Thos; White McLellan (17), for breaking and entering, was admitted to probation for 12 months ; John Guillmot, for criminal assault on a girl under 14, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, his Honour remarking that if the prisoner had inflicted any physical injury whatever on the child he would have added a flogging. Percy Arthur Quinlan (breaking and entering) and William Reid (maliciously wounding) pleaded guilty, and sentences were deferred.