SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 163, 30 March 1918, Page 12

SUPREME COURT

nUSONER. SENTENCED

In the .Supreme Court on Thursday Ellen Dora ll.ugh.es, who pleaded guilty in. the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday to a charge of arson at Jtodrijro Hoad, Kilbirnie, on March 14, appeared for sentence before the Ghiet Justice, Sir Ilobert Stout. Mr. J. Piendcvillc, of the Crown Law Office, appeared for the Crown.

Accused, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded that she was under great provocation at the timo cf her offence, and she could not get justice in any other way than by the method she adopted in setting tire to "this man's" house. "The man had jiltod me," continued the prisoner in p, very heartless way, after borrowing a sum ■of money from me. I went to Mβ him about it on two occasions, but he would not listen to me." She used, she added, to go hysterical thinking about it, and one it came into her head to "show him up" by setting lire to his house. It was not her intention to injure the man physically. Pli.s Honour remarked that he could not admit the prisouer to probation, bwt he would order her to come up for sentence w'non called upon, on condition that she. remained in the Salvation Army Homo for one year. ''I am informed," continued Sir Robert Stout, "that you have- on somo occasions given way to liquor. Unfortunately you are living in a country where, notwithstanding the war and all our other troubles, liquor is easily obtainable, and you have fallen through that." Concluding, His Honour commented that the man in question had acted very badly in taking money from the prisoner, and not repaying her, and he hoped the Salvation Army would teo to the collection cf the debt en beiialf of the woman. The man had said that the money was a gift. What right had he, a married man, to take this money from an unmarried woman ?"

Daniel Shaw, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday to ii charge of breaking and entering and theft, was remanded Iα Wedncjday, April 3, for sentence.