SUPREME COURT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19142, 27 October 1927, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON. (ratss association telegbasi.) WELLINGTON, October 26. A case was commenced in tho Supreme Court to-day vrhen a young Italian named Severino Stedilo was chargod with assaulting a one-armed newspaper seller, Henry Alexander Miller, so as to cause him actual bodily harm, and of committing common assault. It ia alleged that Stedile broke Miller's leg in kicking him.' The defence is that Miller commenced the trouble and the leg was broken by Miller tripping and falling. Thomas Duke, a seaman, aged 36, charged with assaulting Chin Lem, causing him actual bodily harm and robbing him o£ £1 15s, pleaded guilty and was remanded for James Perry pleaded guilty to attempted iirson at Kilbirnie, sad vos remanded for sentence. James Walter Houston, 23. appeared for sentence for theft of clothing valued at £SB from a dwelling in New Plymouth. His Honour said that the prisoner had got into the place by protesting attachment for the housekeeper, and while he had the run of the house he stole a number of articles and some clothing. This was not tho first time he had been in trouble. He had been onlv two years in New Zealand. In August, 1926, he started by unlawfully using a motor-car, and received a month. He got three -rears' ;i>rob»tion on charges of dishonesty, and in March of thi3 year two months. It was hopeless to talk of probation. Accused wait sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding two yt&ia