SUPREME COURTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1452, 9 January 1886, Page 2

SUPREME COURTS.

Auckland, Jan. 7. At the Supreme Court this morning John Considine and Jeremiah Driscoll were sentenced to 12 months’ hard labor each for assault with intent to rob. Wellington, Jan, 5. At the Supreme Court to-day, Ah Get, for fraudulently concealing goods, he being a bankrnpt, was sentenced to twelve months. Bridget Wickham, on a charge of receiving stolen properly was remanded. Christchurch, Jan. 6. John Hill, for larceny as a bailee of two horses, was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. George Stubbs, accused of rape, and William Tyron Ferrar, accused of embezzlement are acquitted. Jan. 7. The criminal sittings of the Supremo Court closed this afternoon with the conviction of William Harrison, accused of arson, who was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude. Dunedin, Jan, 7. The taking of evidence in the charge of murder of her mother at South Dunedin, against Margaret Brown, was not concluded when the Court rose to-day. One witness, the first woman who entered the house, gave evidence that she heard Mrs Brown telling the police sergeant that the door was locked. The rest of the evidence was much the same as given previously. Professor Black said that the tests he applied to the stains on the brush found led him to form a strong opinion that they were those of blood, but he would not swear to it. Dr Hocken stated that severe beating, ns evidenced by the scalp being black and bruised, was sufficient to cause death without fracture of the skull. In reply to His Honor he said that if the ring on deceased’s hand had been struck by the brush so severely as to bend it, he would expect to see a small dent un the brush. There were two small dents, but they might be anything. Soaking the brush in water would not remove the dents.