SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 8

SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

:■ IBj Telecrspli.—Pr»«B AlicKhitlon.l , ■ "v- - '. ; -if;/ ; Blenheim, December- l.' s The' Supreme Goiirt sittings opened this mor»« ~ irig'before Mr.' Jiistioe Denniston. _ Tho-calen-.-dar is ■unusnally'"heavy, comprising EeVca '... charges, including-two'of criminal aesault (one - Blenheim-case; and one Seddbn), one each at. ; tempted arson and unnatural offence) "abor- :• tion (a Kcton' case), breaking, and; entering , CPicton), and assault and robbery, against throe young men; , A young man narked Robert Anstice was' sentenced, to 'three 1 years' imprison-! merit' for an 'unnatural offence, lit. Justice; •; JDennistbn' said" he would make /tho sentence heavier'• but: forv accused's weak intellect,- Hβ ; would forward td'the-proper quarter the grandjury's ,question ' as, to- why.' the police : failed ' to .apprehend the- young .man Dejereux,'.alias '. .Evans, though he was apparently a greater , offender: than Ansticc, and though an- infornia-•'-, .tion. against, both was;Jaid' by; an ;hbtelkeeper\ early. next morning, and Devercux' was book- '■■ making at the Soddon races all next 1 day, and . 'waF well .known. to the" police. The jury: dis-' ' agreed -ik :i .'case. in which Ellen,- Thompson, '\ aged .19 years, a, laundress at Picton Hospital, y ■ was" charged,, with ;■' aidminietering to , herself a ■ ; noxious .■'drug..'. The. Crown Prosecutor moved ' ,forj'a."nei?;trial;■:'"■'■".'-."',, ;; /'' ...'.■'';.' .'V ; V-; ■ - j ■-:■•"•..- , ..."...; ' : Auckland, December,-1.,/'. ■At i. the' Supreme Court Augustus Hunter Wheatley, who pleaded guilty in the .Lower Court, to the theft of jewellery from postal. -.. 'packets.at Taumarunuii:was sentenced to -two : years' imprisonment,, the Judge, remarking that correspondence was >' sacred; Thomas '.Henry ' Massocks, for breaking and entering at Ingle:. woodrWeceiyed a sentence- of .three im< ;'.' prisqnnient. ..Reginald .Pearson, found\guilty; of .resisting, assault,, and causing bodily, narin ih'ti a -police constable,";was sentenced to. six.. •months' imprisonment, v Bertram , Sylyando, .': convicted of assaulting a> constable, was lib. v erated on entering into, sureties for-his good behaviour, the evidence showing a set of circumstances, warranting 'lenient ; tceatment,.,.