SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1916, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. ' By'Velegraph —Press Association. Wellington, Nov. Y. , At the Supreme Court, before tffiV Chief Justice, Frank Akain, for forgerjl at Hastings, was admitted to probation} for eighteen months. . Two youths, Basil Henry Fleming and Cyrus Charles Hutton, appeared for sen* tencp for breaking, entering, and theft iih iPalnrereton North. Hutton, -who sty&. broken his probation, -was sentenced to) eighteen months' reformative treatment. Fleming was ordered to come up fo* sentence when called o'n. Isaac. George Ponsiea, an elderly, was sentenced to three years' reformat tlve treatment for an indecent ataaialtj on a little girl. Thomas Pollock, for the theft VF 4 bottle of whisky from a steamer, mm admitted to probation for eighteen) months. Thomas Ridout was co»yicted of f.natching bags containing money from ladies walking on Mount Victoria. Sen* tence was deferred. Joseph Mooney was convicted of" ttoel theft of £2O. The money was loat bjj a messenger, and picked up by aecuwd, who made no response to an adverti*ement announcing the loss. Sentence wad deferred. Frederick George Smith, convicted <fi the theft of jewellery, wa» sentenced tq, two years. William Murphy and John IJaltoml were found guilty of robbery jjitb vio» lence, and sentenced to three yeara' hard labor, the Judge remarking tfotf the prisoners had only been a" month out of gaol, and had ibused thfl chancea under the reformative treatment! ays* tern. In the earlier days of N«w %em land history they would have got (seven* years.