SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 10

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

I'." ;_■. ■ , ■_ -■9 - ' . .(By Tolecraph.—Press Association.) . '.' Christohurch, August 19. ;At the Supreme .Court to-day, Patrick Dalton and James; Arthur were charged with conspiracy to defraud Henry Uru. The indictment, alleged -that',the- offence was con)mitfced iii a railway carriage travelling he-' tween Belfast and'Christchurch, on May 24, Urn being defrauded by tho three-card trick. Dalton was sentenced to nine mouths' imprisonment, and' Arthur was ordered to stand down pending inquiries. ■ Frederick Marshall was indicted that o.n May 9, 1908, being then a servant of the TJnit-ed Farmers', Coal Company, Ltd., he stole £2 4s. of the moneys of the. company. There was a second count, alleging that : on Jiine 26, 1008, at, Ashburton, accused stole, tho sum of £GO, belonging to the company. Tho trial was not concluded when the Court rose for the day. : . • ;'•■.' Christohurch, August 20. Aii' the. Supremo Court to-day, Frederick Marshall, cx-mahaging director of the, United Farmers' Coal Company, was convicted of ombezzlemcnt, and sentenced to twelve 'months' imprisonment. . ■' ' ; ■ Frederick William Dennett and George Nottingham were acquitted on a charge of. assault and robbery: On a charge of burglaTy, to which they pleaded guilty, accused werei'sentenced to three years' imprisonment) eachboing declared an habitual offender.' ' Hans Sliaw was convicted of'perjury. : Sentence was deferred. '~ ~ .-■'-■ '•,--.. ■'.■'. Dunedin, i 9. 7At .the Supreme "Court to-day, Frederick Matthews, who was convicted : yesterday on a. charge of breaking and entering and.tnnft, was found guilty on "a charge of receiving stolen; property. v Hβ was sentenced' to thrcp years, and warned, that he, would bo declnrecl a'habitual' criminal if ho,came before the Court again. . Michael Cojeman ■ was con-

victed on- a charge of assaulting, Constable Daubney so as to cause .actual bodily, harm,), and sentenced to twelve months. .Frederick Chas. Lacoy was -sentenced to four years on a chargeof wilfully setting fire to, a. dwellinghouse. :• '. ;.- . . ■ ■ -i- ;■. .'■.■- ■ , Auckland, August 19. Tlio'hearing 6f n charge of arson pi'eforrod against- Wilson Stuart Adams, ■■'.formerly, night watchman' at the Mitchelson Timber, Company's mill.at Owhata, in connection with' tbo biirning of a schoolhouse ■ and anothor "building, .was concluded at tho Supremo Court'.to-day, a verdict of not guilty, being returned. . l ; . . .'