SUPREME COURTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3286, 9 April 1885, Page 2

SUPREME COURTS.

(By Teieokaph.) Auckland, April 8. The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened to-day. Judge Gillies m addressing the Grand Jury, said there were 16 prisoners, charged with 19 offences) the most serious being a charge of murder, and one of attempted murder. . The Grand Jury found a true bill re Marxm long, charged with larceny. Wkhjkgtoh, April 8. At the Supreme Court tho business wss unimportant. Geo. Henry Evans, for larceny, wag acquitted ; Jas. Jones, _*or larceny from a dwelling, was found guilty, and sentenoe deferred; Saul Bennett, for house-breaking and larceny, was sentenced to. 1? moqtfc*

CTrRiSTCHiraoH, April 8. The ciimliiiii suaaiou of the Supreme Com oponed to-day before Mr Justice Johnstot who m his charge, alluded to tho serious natui of the c-alonihr. Thora were twcnty-tnre perßons cliarged and eighteen casos, some c which would require rather minute invest: gation. He found that m making out th bearings of the evidence from the facts the the exhibits were not with the deposition! There were several cases of forgery, also tw cases of arson, and the usual variety of caa< of larceny, it:. _ , : Die Gmnd -Jury found true bills m a cages except those of Samuel A' Court, accuse of committing grievous bodily harm, an Charles Hawker, aiding and abetting Bichar Hawker m arson. Three prisoners tried to-day were acquitted They were James Swanson, charged witl larceny from the person at Duneandel Elizabeth Ireland, accused of committini arson at Leeston, and Edward Vaughan fo larceny. Dxtnbdin, April 8. At the Supreme" Court to-day the onl; case m which no true-bill waa found was tha of Fred. Fulton, for firing off a revolver wifcl intent to kill. George Piper got six month for stealing a watch and money from a rootr m a hotel ; Joseph Albert Green, who hat embezzled about £500 from his einployors Beid and Duncan, and who pleade( fuilty, was sentenced to three years [. JD. Willcos, telegraphist and postmastei at Alexandra South, for embezzlement b: about £150, got two years ; Fredk. Rowe ■who was described as an honest man whet Bober, but -would steal with a policemai •within twenty yards of him to get drink, go: twelve months for stealing tools from i cabinetmaker's shop ; John CoHsens. vtlu stole a watch, etc., from a prospecting mine: from the West Coast Sounds while the latte: was m a house of ill-fame, was sent to gao for 18 months ; Carrie Fleming pleadec guilty to the charge of ill-treatinj John and Isabella Fleming at Sensing ton, and was remanded for sentence Bobert Nash, a bookbinder, was sentenced t( a month for stealing a Douay bible ant illegally pawning it. Janet Oliver, a servani girl, for stealing jewellery and a watch fron her mistress, got three months. Hans Han sen, a seaman who stabbed a fellow seaman pleaded guilty to common assault. He haci been m prison for three months. He was no) detained beyond the rising of tho Court. In a case against James Estwood and James Myall, for stealing £18 from a navvy and assaulting him m a back Btreet, the jury pannot agree, and have been locked up all night.