AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 27 May 1914, Page 6

AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

(PBESS ASSOCIATION- TELEGKAM ) *x _ L - AUCKLAND. Ma y 26 • At ..the Supreme Court no bill returned m the case of tho tramS motorman, George Frederick Lees w„„ was charged with manslaughter. Th« Grand Jury was of opinion that thero was nothing to indicate that tho motorman Lad not taken all cautions at the time of the accident* George John Burberry, alias Frederick George Smith, pleaded giiiltv *_. charges of theft of a watch, watch chain, pendant, and sovereign case It was ascertained* it accused had been A-nl 6th. -His Honour therefore intimated that there was no necessity for him to further add to the nenaltv Accused was sentenced to a term of siv months' imprisonment, with hard labour, to tako effect from April" 6th and to run concurrently with his nrel sent John Cecil Mercer who had been remanded from Dunedin' nW^ he •"I"*, se T n S a pleaded guilty to a charge made against him in respect of a stolen savings bankbook. It was explained that ho was serving a sentence of six months' imprisonment in Dunedin. wh-™ he had uttered a cheque. Ho had gone to Dunedin after committing the offence m Auckland. His Honour sentenced prisoner to a term of six months' imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by a period of three years' reformative treatment, the sentence to be concurrent with the one he was already serving. Benjamin Jones, charged with an indecent assault at Waihi, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) ■ . _ WANGANTJI, May 26. At the Supreme Court W. P. Garner, of Taihape, on a charge of failing to keep proper books of accounts fo»----three years before his bankruptcy, was found not guilty. Myrtle Stringer, convicted of an offence under the Registration of Births Act, was ordered to $£"?,* U P £° r sentence when called upon. William Chapman was acquitted on a chargo of false pretences.