SUPREME COURT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2248, 9 October 1889, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SKbSIONS.

[PEB PSEBB ASSOOIAXIOH-I Wbluhgtokt, October 8. The Grand Jary were oooupled all day comldeilng the Indictment for pejary prerferred against Ohief Detective Bebj«m<n In connection with the Ohemls oate. They applied to tbe Ohlcf Jastloe to b»ve the n«mes of lospeotor Thoirpton, and Deteotlve Campbell endorsed on the baok of the indlotment so that they might be oaHed. Mr Jelllooe refnsed to assent to thle, and His Honor reqaested tbe jury to consider whether It was neoossnry to oall the witnesses mentioned, and then be would deoide on bis own responsibility. Tbe dfsoaeilon ia still prooeedSng. Lateb The Grand Jury found no bill In the Benjamin perjuiy ease. Tbe Supreme Oonrt was occupied all day he»rlng tie charge of alleged fraudulent bankruptcy preferred tgtiost Charles Bdward Beokman. Tbe jury after an hour's deliberation found a verdict of not gutlty. Edward Mclntosh, convicted yesterday of robbery, was sentenced to two years' hard labor. The grand jury Wtro discharged from atlendanoe ottU the 27th Inst, . when they will re-assemble to deal with tbe indictments for murder and foroible entry orlnlng out of tbe Omahu, Hawke's Ray outrage. OHRiSTcnuKOH, October 8. The criminal eiul-iga were continued to-day. Mlnnlo Brown and Annie Otisldy, for Uroeuy from tbe person, were sentenced loti and three months, respectively. John Martin and Henry Sotry frr oonaplraoy at Lyttelton by means of the three pard trick got three months. William Milllgan for larceny of • cheque was discharged on probation, Robert MoOready for cutting and woundlog bis paramour, Annie Reltly, was acqultt9d. DuKßcnr, Ootober 8 \u '.be Soprpme Oonrt, Harry Thomson, oonvioted of laro<-ry, wdb sentenoed to six months' Imprisonment. Thomas Hamy Rlohardi w*s plaoed on probation on condition of his supporting his wife and family, Thomas Easton Waugb was found guilty of embezzling Post Cffioe funds. Sentence we a deferred. \ Dunedik Ootober 9

The orltnlnal aesslon 10 oonoluded. Qoorge W»H«oe for porjory waa sontenoed to two years j Thos Wangb, for embfz^lement, twelve months.