SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 21 June 1915, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS FOR SENTENCE A TROOPER FROM EGYPT Two prisoners appeared for sentence before His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) in the Supreme Court on Saturday morning. Mr- V. 11. Meredith, of the Crown Law Office, represented the Crown. Leo Stephen Curtis, who had been brought back from Egypt to answer six charges of theft of moneys from the Ohakuno Borough Council, had previously appeared before His Honour, who intimated that the prisoner _would be allowed to go on active service if the military authorities would accept him. Sir John Findlay, K.C., who with Mr. D. 11. Hoggard appeared <in the prisoner's behalf, informed the Court that Curtis would bo accepted if he reported in Alexandria. Since intimation to this effect has been received, however, the Crown had brought under the Notice of counsel a matter which would require investigation.. His Honour -remanded the prisoner until this morning. ADMITTED TO PROBATION. A .young man, named Axel Edward William Lythborg, who had been employed as a railway cleric at Halcombe station, bad to answer for the theft of a mail bag. He had admitted the offence, in the Lower Court'. Several witnesses gave evidence as to the previous good character of tho prisoner, whose counsel (Mr. T. M. Wilford) contended that the position in which Lythberg stood in relation to the theft was. not a position of trust. He had seen the postal clerks take tlio mail bag into the van and lie afterawards stole it. The money obtained by the theft was used to furnish Lythborg's house. He had since been married. i The case, counsel urged, was a suitable one for probation. His Honour admitted the prisoner to probation for a period of twelve months, but remarked that there was_ a great risk in doing this. The conditions included an order that the stolon;money should be restored within a week, and a further order that the costs of the prosecution should be'paid. MAGISTRATE'S COURT Two serious charges in respect to a small girl of eleven years were preferred against George Penman. The offences were alleged to have been .committed at Wadestown on June 14. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., who, heard the case, committedaccused to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed in £100. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., dealt with, tho remainder of the police cases. Ernest Henry Georgo Sohvay was remanded till Monday on a charge of attempting to leave Now Zealand with intent to default on a maintenance order made against him in respect to an illegitimate child. ' ' , Allan M'Pbce was fined £3; in default one month's imprisonment, for using obscene language in Willis Street. For drunkenness, Daniel M'llaiKlle was fined 205., or tlireo days' imprisonment, while Georgo Miller, who had fallen into and been rescued from the harbour while 'drunk, was remauded for a week. .