CHRISTCHURCH SITTINGS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 13 May 1913, Page 8

CHRISTCHURCH SITTINGS.

"" Tv q CHR^TCE[UIICH, May 12. :: •■ ihe Supreme Court criminal sessions ...:. .: opened to-day before Mr. Justice Den-.:v-.;y. niston, who mjhis chargo to the grand - •- .*'-iury.-said, the calendar was a somewhat* ... ....heavy one. Thero wore 18 indictments, , : v-,X.)against 17 persons. Six o f those, he .'.-■;-'.-. regretted to say, were ■ sexual cases. - -:■■;. i ney.-, not very serious ones ol v....^-t-neir type however, thero being more ... >;..6. lewdness than: anything else. •,-: , ; Froderick William Braidshaw; . whoso'; - v-v sentence /or theft was held over from ~; ■ the previous sessions to allow certain ~;..,enquiries to be made, was senteuced ;....- to three .years' imprisonment. His Hon- >; our stating -that but for prisoner's ake ■ St^tiaf Sm BaV° rOC"eiTOd a"^ _ Thomas Morton, who pleaded .vu'ltr to a chargo of breaking and jin-erin^ wag .sentenced to two years, and warrprt that.if ho camo beforo the Court again ho would- bo treated as an ha.b^u-n crimimal. John Bradley (22. years) was sentenc+v e° * montlls> imprisonment for the theft of money, and ordered afterwards to complete a term of reformative treatment. ■ - ■

Alexander Harold (16 years), for videcont assault was sentenced to three yearo imprisonment, and Wm. McUnyan three years for breakin" and entermc.