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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 23 May 1908, Page 7

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(Per ..Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May -21 At the Supreme Court to-day' James inompson was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for attempting to set -fire to the Cafe de Paris Hotel building on February' 13th. The Crown prosecutor said there was grave reason to believe the accused was concerned in other attempts at fire raising which occured the same night. - David Whytoek, a middle-aged man, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for indecent assault. R. Fleming was acquitted on a charge of perjury. .'■■■■ „ AUCKLAND. May 21. ..A^ ' Police Court this, afternoon Michael Hayden, on a charge of ■'wife-' beating, was sentenced to 6 months imprisoijment with hard labour. _At the Supreme Court to-day Henry Herbert, a: Maori convicted of'stealing a portmanteau, was sentenced to 3 years with hard labour • Ghas. Edgecumbe and Daniel Munro, charged with «xr i? g and abetting a man named Walker in forging and uttering a cheque, were found not guilty and discharged; Edward Kirby, a miner, of Waihi, found guilty,-of assaulting a little girl, was remanded for sentence. WELLINGTON, May 22. Four shopkeepers were to-day fined 10s and costs in the Magistrate's Court for. Sunday'trading. At the Supreme Court to-day Wallace Herbert -.Stewart was charged with forgery. The iury returned .a verdict that the accused was. guilty of uttering, a receipt, but, did not consider, it was done with criminal intent. The Judge said there was sufficient doubt about fahe verdict to make it desirable to obtain the decision of the Appeal Court as to the effect of the finding. The accused in the meantime was ladmitted to. bail. '-■■■' Frederick Percy Pilclier, 19 years of age, for forgery and larceny, was sentenced to three months, without hard labour.

Roderick McKenzie, an elderly man, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to-day to seven years' imprisonment for committing a,serious offence on two young girls. - , DUNEDIN, May 22. \ Chun Dun was committed for trial to-day for assaulting Ah Kee. The case is the outcome of an affray in the Chinese --uaa-ters of Walker Street.

NELSON, May 22. Charles Brickland, driver of the Motueka coach which collided with a railway engine at Applyby on February 1, causing the death -of Mrs Lydia 'Tilbury, of Wellington, was committed /for trial on a charge of manslaughter, bail being allowed.

AUCKLAND, May 22. Smith, the ire-captured convict, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In reply to the Magistrate he stated he would take time to consider what steps he should taken in regard to_ his allegations against Warder Richards. If he considered it advisable he would nut the complaint in writing