SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 18, 6 September 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

NAPIER SESSIONS. (Per Press Association.) hi' Napier, September 5. iM '■ the Supremo Court to-day Williams McCarthy, for the theft of a siivefr watch, was found guilty. Sentenoe (was deferred till to-morrow. .Fl-ederick' Twart, for cruelly illt Painting a horse by failing to provide itivwith proper food, water, and shelwas f blind guilty. The Chief Justice said he would not impose a term of imprisonment, but would take y, till lito-morrow to consider what fine her would impose.

-• TIMARU SESSIONS. »,'*J . ‘ 8 . Timaru, September 5. 'i&t the Supreme Court a middlelabourer named Clousen, a foreigner/ but a long resident here, pleadedu nb't guilty to a charge of stealing aAdfcycle. Other charges to be heard against him are breaking and entering ’arid stealing clothing. The bicycle waaiJEtolen from the owner in Timaru, ancbwas in the accused’s possession at Oomaru next 'day, also a swag containing some of the stolen clothes. The defdnce was that accused bought both theoswag and the bicycle from some maroon the road. The jury disagreed, ancbnyvcre discharged. /AUCKLAND SESSIONS. • liri' Auckland-, September 5. »3Tio.‘trial of Martha Jane O’Shaughneaaey/ a woman of middle age, bettor komnn ( in Auckland as Mrs Maxwell, onnac charge that she did on or about Junior 13 last at Kingsland murder a yanng ; 'woman named Elsie Alexandra HdlWnd, was begun at the Supreme Court t -to-day. The evidence for the pnoeocution, which was the same as thiiiiigiven in the lower Court, had not ednnhided when the Court rose.