SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 15 August 1911, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. (Per Press Association) Wellington, August 14. At the Supreme Court to-day, Arthur Vincent Evens pleaded guilty to eight charges of wilfully damaging plateglass windows, hy scratching them with a daimond ring, and was remanded till Wednesday. William John McDcau, a young married man, and Charles Leonard Brown, a mere youth, pleaded’guilty to having broken into a hotel and a butchers’ shop at Pahiatua and stolon goods and money. They were admitted to four years’ probation, and ordered to pay £7 2s 6d, the value of the -.goods not restored, and £5 each towards the cost of the prosecution. Julius Jorgensen, a seaman from the barque Duncraig, pleaded not guilty to assaulting Charles Swanson, causing him actual bodily harm. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the accused was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. DUNEDIN SESSIONS. Dunedin, August 14. The"'qimr{cfly‘ s hTimlnM' ,, yittfPg the Supreme Court commenced to-day. The calendar consists of only three cases—theft of a steer, theft of two live pound notes, and of obtaining "it small sum of money by false pretences. The first of these, in which the accused was Richard Moore, jun., was not completed -when the Court rose.’PALMERSTON NORTH SESSIONS. Palmerston N., August 14. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) began the sittings of the Supreme Court to-day to deal with cases left over from the unfinished session. G. P. Barry v. A. T. Dairy, regarding the dissolution of part a or.:!; in and the settlement of accent to between, the brothers, occupied marly rll day, judgment being reserved. II a Honour ordered that the accounts be referred to the R:W: nr cf tie Supreme Court. The. appeal of Norman Leslie Chirr, Dannevirke'-.,against the decision of the Napier-magistrate giving damages to H. Gebbie for failure to secure a loan, was heard. Judgment was reserved.

CHRISTCHURCH SESSIONS. Christchurch, August 14. Alexander William Ironside pleaded guilty to, ,theft ■of £7OO, the property of the Public Trustee. Mr Donnelly said tlie accused, who was only twentythree years of age, had unfortunately been associated with those whose means were 'more than his own, and in his extravagance had fallen. Accused had paid back’ all. the money which.had been in his possession. Ho had also transferred back an equity in his house to the Public Trustee. Ho had friends who were prepared to find work for him on a station in the country as-soon as his sentence should have expired. Tho Crown Prosecutor : said that the amount imrecovcred was over £4OO. He could sec no extenuation.whatever for the offence. Tho defalcations had taken place over a period eighteen months, and on one occasion accused had destroyed all, tlie records of the defalcation and the. fact had only been discovered by tho parties concerned mqking complaints to the Public Trustee. His Honour said that accused stood convicted of a gross offence. His age was the only thing in his favour. He would be sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for eighteen months. Mary Brown was charged that on April 17th she had disposed of tho dead body, of her child with intent to conceal the fact that she had been delivered of a child. The case for "the, prosecution was that tiro prisoner had admitted having'been delivered of a male child which was dead. She had thrown it into the Avon. A female child had been found in tho Avon about that time. It might not have been the child of the accused, hut that did not affect the fact that concealment of,aJ)irth.; had taken .place. Accused was convicted and sentence deferred pending -tlie decision by the Court of Appeal on law points raised.