COURTS AND OFFENCES

Southland Times, Issue 17620, 7 April 1914, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES

WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.

(Per United Press Association.) ■WELLINGTON”, April «. The Chief Justice gave judgment to* day in Dell v. Dell, in which the mother, Alice Lee, applied for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain the custody of the girl, aged seventeen, who. it was alleged, was living in immoral relationship with the stepfather. Counsel for the girl contended that as she was over sixteen she could go where she liked and do what she liked.

His Honour said that the Court would not be doing its duty were it not to interfere to save the girl against herself and the most disgraceful conduct of tire stepfather. An order was made for the girl to go into the Salvation Army Home in the meantime.

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT,

AUCKLAND. April «.

At the Supreme Court Mr Justice Cooper sentenced Harry Magnusson, to two years' imprisonment on. three charges of assault with intent to do grievous booily harm. The case arose out of feeling which arose between the old watersiders' union and the new. Judge Cooper said it was possible that Magnusson bad some feeling because he could not get work on the wharf, but using a knife on an officer of the Union, was not the way to vent his feelings.

BURGLARIES AT AUCKLAND.

AUCKLAND. April €.

Arthur Hamilton, forty-two years of 1 age, an American, was arrested on Saturday on a charge of stealing jewellery ■ valued at one hundred and seventy-two pounds from Peter Swanberg, secondhand dealer in Upper Queen street. The burglary was committed on October It or 13. when the safe was blown open, and jewellery and six pounds ten shillings in cash stolen. Several ’burglaries have been committed in the city lately* A quantity of stolen property, including some of Swanberg's jewellery, has been recovered by the detectives.

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND, April 6.

Prisoners who had pleaded guilty it! the Lower Court were brought up fop sentence at the Supreme Court this morning before His Honour, Mr Justice Cooper. For the theft of thirty pounds from a, passenger on the Dargavillc-Helensvill® night boat, Hcrewini Mlhaka, an elderly Maori, was admitted to probation, for twelve months. • A youthful native named Kurd. with, a record, received six months' imprisonment with hard labour, and three years* reformative detention, for horse stcalm George Burberry, who has added to his list of convictions by a theft at Dargaville was sentenced to six months’ hard inboitr and declared an habitual criminal.