CRIMINAL TRIALS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1988, 19 February 1914, Page 4

CRIMINAL TRIALS.

AUCKJ/AND SUPREME COURT. (By Telegraph.--Prof 6 Association.) . Auckland, February 18. Goorgo Harris, & yoftiig man, who wad yesterday eonr.cted of an attempt Jo stool a pocket-book from Joseph Chadwick on tlio Wlwngarei racecourse, was further charged with the theit. o;f a purse containing £18' from William Bowon at the Whangnrei races. Tijo jury found him not .guilty. Albert William Stanley., who pleaded guilty in tlio Lower Court to a charge of for.gerv, was brought up for sentence. He incurred a debt of £!) for board, and, in going away, gave as security a forged fiocmnefttj" purporting to represent ■s.l'mrtfs in a. local entorprise. Prisoner was admitted to probation lor a period p.f two years, n:nd ordere dto pay tlio debt of '.CO, as well as tho costs of tlio prosecution. A Inbonriwi man, Michael Dclanoy, pleaded Hot- guilty to a eh ame of theft from -tlio person.: 'TJio jury dis- ' agreed. Mid ft now trial was ordered. Two prisoners undergoing sentence jit. Mount Eileh Gaol, Albert Edward M'Queen and Hnirv WiNn., appeared to answer charges of attempting to render a warder ineanablo cf resistance, of doing actual bodily h fl rm, fluf].'. of attempting to ecape. This case is pfoeeedi"s= ' ■" 1 . _■..■ ■