THE COURTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 36, 7 February 1912, Page 6

THE COURTS.

•SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, February 6. At the Supreme Court to-day the jury failed to agree in the case in which Frederick William Green, , late secretary of the Wellington Working Men’s Club, was charged with stealing £175 belonging to the club. The case will he retried to-morrow. The jury also failed to agree concerning the prosecution of William Frederick Jones, charged with forgery. The defence set up was mistaken identity. The case will ho taken again during the current sitting.of the Court. Palmerston, February 6., At the Supremo Court to-day, before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), John Cairns was acquitted on a charge of impersonation at Taihape and making a false statement to the deputy returning officer of the Waimarino electoral district. W. T.. Bowater was charged with, a breach of the Bankruptcy Act, in that he did obtain property to -the value of £59(3 ;15s’ Cd, from Messrs; Abraham and ,Williams by a false statement of his affairs. Evidence was concluded to-night, and legal argument will he heard to-morrow morning. Emily Jano Chow was granted a decree in throe mouths from Robert Chow, for desertion. Palmerston, February 7. In the Supremo Court Patrick McAilefty, an, elderly cabdrivcr, found guilty, on Monday , ;of assaulting another cahdriver, came up for sentence. The assault consisted in kicking his opponent on the jaw and. fracturing the same. The Chief Justice imposed a fine of £25. • A ONE-LEGGED THIEF. Timarn, February G. At the Supreme Court only one criminal case was completed. W. Evans, a young man with one leg, was convicted of house-breaking and thefts at Rakaia and Washdykc. A list of previous convictions for like offences was produced, and Judge Denniston sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment and declared him to be a habitual criminal. A charge of theft of a bicycle against W. N. Clanson, over which the jury disagreed last session, was begun, hut was not completed. _